Chosen by the Beast Alpha

Chapter 50: Chapter 50

She stepped right up to me, lowering her voice. "I ran into him on my way here. He said he just got back and wanted to see you. He was afraid you’d turn him down if he asked you himself, so... he asked me to reach out."

"Anna." My tone came out a bit stiff, more worn-out than annoyed.

"I know." She squeezed my hand, her brows drawn tight. "I’m sorry. I just thought... you two never really got a proper ending. It’s been so many years, and you guys—"

"Stop." I cut in.

Anna shut her mouth instantly.

I pulled in a slow breath and turned away.

Reed Calloway, Alpha of the Moonborn Pack. That’s who he is now. But before all that, before Luke ever showed up in my life, he was my first love.

The Moonborn Pack sits close to the Blueridge Pack, and our packs have always gotten along. We grew up together. He was always smiling, carrying this gentle, steady warmth that made me feel safe back when I knew absolutely nothing about anything.

I was young, and I thought everything between us was simple. Then one day, his mother came to me. She was polite, but every word was sharp and clear—don’t stand in the way of Reed’s future.

After that, he left to do what he had to do to earn his place as the future Alpha of the Moonborn Pack.

He didn’t talk to me properly beforehand. He just told me to wait... and then vanished. I stopped waiting long before the waiting was actually over.

It was the right call. Really. Looking at him now—he looks steadier, more mature—but my feelings are all tangled up. It’s like staring at an old photo from forever ago, one that doesn’t stir up anything real anymore.

I walked over to him.

"I didn’t know you’d show up," I said.

"But I did." He turned the glass in his hand and looked at me with this open, honest expression. "How have you been?"

"I’m good."

He looked like he had a whole speech in his head but couldn’t get a single line out.

Anna cut in quickly. "You two haven’t seen each other in, what, five or six years? You should catch up. Dinner’s on me. Come on, let’s sit."

Reed looked at me. Anna looked at me. But whatever interest I might’ve had was long gone.

"I’m heading home," I said, grabbing my bag.

Before I reached the door, Reed shot up from his seat. He moved fast, stepping right into my path.

We ended up standing at the restaurant entrance, people brushing past us.

"Just give me five minutes, okay?" His voice had that quiet, desperate edge. "I was twenty-two, I had no idea how to stand up to my mother. I handled everything wrong. But I need you to know I never meant to give up—"

"Reed." I said his name, stopping him.

"Lena, I really want another chance with you," he pushed out.

I didn’t answer right away. He deserved something real, not some careless, offhand excuse.

"I know you’re serious," I finally said. "But I don’t have anything left to give you in that way. Truly nothing. Back then I was too young, too alone, and you were good to me. That’s all it ever was. It shouldn’t have been anything more."

He reached for my hand, and I stepped back before he could touch me.

"Don’t try again," I said. "There’s nothing left for us to fix. Nothing. I’m sorry."

Then I walked away.

Samuel’s POV

I sat in the car, watching Lena across the street through the restaurant window—with some other male wolf hovering near her.

I couldn’t hear a word they were saying, but their body language basically announced the whole plot. He tried to touch her arm twice. She dodged him twice.

She turned and left. He just stood there staring after her, wearing that look people get when a door shuts on them without a sound.

I picked up my phone and dialed. Two rings, he answered.

As soon as he picked up, I said, "You’re not gonna believe this, but your... let’s call her your former partner? Yeah, she’s got plenty of admirers. I just watched a very good-looking Alpha pour his heart out to her outside a restaurant. Full confession mode. Very touching."

Silence on the other end. The kind that carries extra weight.

"She’s not my former partner," Dominic said. His voice was flat, tight—finally giving me what I wanted. "Our bond hasn’t been dissolved."

"Right, right. Technically still intact. But it’s getting close, isn’t it? So hypothetically, once it is dissolved... you think I’ve got a shot at asking her out? ...Hello? Dominic?"

Dominic hung up on me. Honestly, I saw it coming. I watched that male wolf out on the sidewalk stand for a few more seconds, stiff as a statue, before he finally turned and walked off in the opposite direction.

I couldn’t help it—I let out a short laugh, shook my head, and merged the car back into traffic.

Dominic’s POV

Just the thought of Lena ending up with someone else made the beast inside me roar again. It slammed against the walls of my control, desperate to break loose and tear apart any man who dared get close to her.

And the damn thing was mocking me.

It fed on my pain, pushing me to run back to her, to rip that guy apart, to stand beside her and make it clear to the entire world that she was mine.

"Shut up," I snapped at it in my head. "I’m not falling for that."

But the beast only howled louder. It knew exactly where to strike. All it took was imagining Lena with someone else, and the fragile calm I’d built started crumbling.

Then my mom’s face flashed through my mind—the way she broke down when she found out what I’d decided. She begged me not to carry this weight alone, insisted there had to be another way out of the curse. But I saw the fear in her eyes, that awful fear of losing her son.

My father didn’t say a word. He just watched me with that tight, hollow look—like he was watching me step into a storm he couldn’t pull me back from. They both knew this time was different. The curse was getting worse. I could feel it tearing at me, growing stronger every damn day.

No. I wasn’t dragging Lena into this disaster. She didn’t deserve that.

But Samuel’s words kept echoing in my head—she really is different. Fierce, stubborn, always fighting for something better. Even when I froze her out, even when I pushed her away, she kept trying to thaw the ice around my heart.

And her kindness... damn. She’d rush to a hospital in the middle of the night for a sick friend. She never flinched from me, even when I looked like hell. She tried to soothe the monster inside me with nothing but her warmth.

She deserved someone whole. Someone who could promise her light and a future—not a cursed Alpha who might lose himself and become a monster at any moment.

The beast roared again, furious, refusing to accept any of this. It wanted Lena—her scent, her touch, every part of her. But I couldn’t give in.

Even if it meant watching her walk into someone else’s arms.

Even if it meant losing her forever.

This was the only thing left I could do for her—set her free.

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