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There won’t ever be a time in my life when there isn’t a Scarlet shaped hole in my heart. I’ve waited a lifetime for you, destroyed us both to keep you safe and happy, and I can’t do it anymore.
Come home, Alpha. Come back to your family.
Yours eternally-
Gold
I’m sobbing, and I don’t even know when I started. I reach for a tissue and take a minute to get under control. My hand shakes when I pick up the third letter.
No one has ever looked at me and seen me so clearly as you can. But I see you, too. I see the shame, the hurt, the pain, the isolation the years have put on you. We aren’t perfect, but, Scarlet, I think maybe we might just be perfect for you.
I’m sorry. For my words, for my actions, for my inaction. But I see you, be brave one more time and take a chance. We won’t let you down.
Your Acton.
I pick up the next letter and close my eyes to stop everything for just a second before I unseal it.
Living in fear has a price. We knew that. But when you appeared, magical, mystical woman that you are, you upended it all. We felt alive, real, again. Not like the ghosts we’d become. That I’d become.
You saved us. Then saved us again. And a third time.
Let us save you this time.
I’m sorry for hurting you, Scarlet.
Your devoted servant
Jet.
I pick up the last envelope. It’s thicker than the rest. Taylor. I want to know what he has to say, but I’m afraid. I carefully open the letter and stare blindly at it for a few moments before I blink and start to read.
I saw you seven years ago. Gold had whispered your name in his sleep, and I, with jealousy burning in my breast, set out to destroy you. But the moment you smiled, I was under your spell.
I know about your company. I know about how you like to drink chamomile tea in the evening. I know you like toast with just a bit of butter. I know you wear red to scare the alphas who seek to topple you from your position.
You see, Scarlet; I have been in love with you for a very long time.
Obsessed.
Captivated.
But life happens, and my lapse in judgment caught up to me. I had to focus on my pack, who needed me. Save them. And it took everything I had to keep the pack together. Even then, I knew I would be coming for you, that you would be part of us. But I had to hold them for you.
Even when those threats kept coming, I hid it, trying to get the timing right to save Barren, Gold, you, and the pack. It was conceited. It was arrogance. It was the perfect combining of worlds. You fit like I knew you would. Mouthwatering, tantalisingly close.
It worked. Until it didn’t.
But the cost was you.
And I think the cost was too high. I know it was too high. The thought of losing you because of these circumstances makes me insane.
I need your forgiveness, and I will do everything I can to earn it. I made decisions that hurt all of us, badly, and I can’t change them. I don’t even know if I would go back and change them because you are alive.
And Bar is alive.
And Jet, Acton, and Gold are alive.
Thank you for that.
