Chapter 140. Avoiding Me

Ellis’s POV

This month had been nothing short of chaos for me—an emotional storm that refused to settle no matter how hard I tried to anchor myself. Every day felt like a contradiction. I was elated because Love was back in my life, close enough for me to see her, hear her voice, breathe in her scent. And yet, I was drowning in melancholy because she wasn’t mine anymore. Not really. She belonged to someone else now. David. The thought alone tightened something sharp and unforgiving in my chest.

I had survived wars, coups, betrayal from allies, and power struggles that would have broken weaker Alphas—but this? This quiet ache of wanting someone I couldn’t have was far worse.

The clock on my office wall read a little past five in the evening. The sun was beginning its slow descent, casting long amber streaks through the glass windows. Normally, b