Alpha’s Mistake Chapter 07
At the United Pack Elite Warrior Academy’s Border Tactical Command Center, early autumn evening.
I was bent over my laptop, editing a border joint defense exercise plan. Coffee steamed next to
The chair across the table slid back. Felix Blackwood sat down and pushed a chestnut cake
toward me.
“How’s the plan coming, Captain? Here, eat something sweet first. Don’t need your blood sugar
crashing on us at midnight again.”
I looked up at him. Those smiling eyes had been there through countless all-nighters, helping
me draft operation after operation.
He remembered I had a sweet tooth. Remembered my shellfish allergy. Remembered my low blood sugar. He never gave me charity. He stood right beside me.
“Almost done. The Blue Force commander’s a pain. Just need to double-check the infiltration
routes.”
Felix was my classmate from the academy. Deputy commander of the Special Ops unit.
The door swung open. A man in a wrinkled shirt walked in.
Disheveled hair. Sunken eyes. Looked like he’d traveled a long way. Nothing like the smug
Alpha’s son from seven years ago.
Hugo.
He scanned the room, then locked onto me. His eyes lit up with something almost insane. He strode toward me. “Natalie-”
Felix stood up and blocked him. “Sir, I think you have the wrong person.”
Hugo ignored him completely. He kept staring at me, eyes red. “Natalie… I finally found you…”
I put down my fork and looked at him politely. “Can I help you?”
His whole body trembled like he couldn’t handle being ignored. He covered his face, his voice thick with regret. “I was wrong… Nicole is a liar!”
He gave her blessing bracelet to another woman. She watched through the…
He pieced together the last seven years in fragments.
Once Nicole got to college, her real self came out. She said Hugo didn’t give her enough money, so she borrowed from loan sharks to buy luxury bags.
She stole pack defense maps and sold them to enemy packs. They caught her. She got banished.
But the White family took the hit too. Alpha turned against them. Their business collapsed. Mountains of debt. My parents sold their estate to help pay it off. Now they rented a place in the Omega slums, scavenging scrap to get by.
“Natalie… your mom and dad talk about you every day. They say they’re sorry. I’ve got nothing left now. Just you.” He reached for my hand.
Felix slapped his hand away without hesitation. “Keep your hands to yourself.”
I looked at the hope on Hugo’s face and felt how absurd it all was.
“Hugo.” ” I said his name. No emotion. “What happens to you now doesn’t have anything to do
with me.”
I stood up, gathered my documents, and slung my bag over my shoulder. Looked at Felix. “Let’s go. The plan’s done. Hit the training ground.”
Felix took my gear bag naturally and held my hand. We walked out of the conference room
together.
Behind us, Hugo’s quiet, desperate sobs echoed.
I didn’t look back.
The early autumn breeze blew, cooling the heat. I gripped Felix’s hand and walked forward.
Twenty-six years old. Tactical instructor at United Pack Elite Warrior Academy. Captain of the Special Ops unit.
I’d survived the brutality of the battlefield. Built a team from nothing. Seen fake family love for what it was. Found someone who stood beside me, not above me.
Next steps? One at a time. No anxiety. No people pleasing. No groveling.
The scars stay in the past.
