A Broken Alpha Heiress' Revenge (Riley) novel Chapter 208

Chapter 208

Riley’s POV

Finished

Lucien Duskgrave’s lips parted slightly, and the sound of his voice rolled through the air–low, magnetic, edged with the kind of dominance only an Alpha prince could wield.

“Riley. Sit.”

My heart skipped a beat.

That one word–Riley–landed differently now. He didn’t call me Miss Vale anymore. Somewhere along the way,” dropped the distance, the formality. What replaced it was something warmer…. and far more dangerous.

he’d

Every time he spoke to me now, it was with intention. He never let me hide. Always brought at him.

me closer. Always made me look

I swallowed. “A–Alpha Lucien…‘ is something wrong?”

He didn’t look away. “Ronan Duskcliff’s parents just arrived–with Tessa.”

The room went

still.

Thunder couldn’t have hit harder.

I felt the blood drain from my face, my lungs freezing mid–breath. After all these years–five years of silence, of waiting, of enduring—the moment had finally come.

Caelum had already uncovered the truth. I had the facts. The evidence. But none of it mattered… not until Tessa said it aloud.

Tessa. The girl whose silence sentenced me.

She was the only one who could free me now—with words that should’ve been spoken five years ago.

Lucien’s hand found mine, grounding me. I let him guide me down beside him on the long leather sofa, my pulse drumming like war in my veins.

He turned his head, voice calm and command absolute. “Mrs. Beck. Open the gate. Let them in.”

Outside, past the wrought–iron fence of the Duskgrave estate, I knew they were already standing there.

Lady Duskcliff. Lord Duskcliff. Soaking in the cold rain.

Tessa sat between them.

They didn’t run Didn’t knock Didn’t beg.

They just stood there, letting the storm hit them, as if that could somehow wash away the blood on their hands.

I’d imagined this day a hundred times. A thousand. But not once did I picture them looking so… hollow.

Tessa sat in her wheelchair–pale, quiet, stripped of all that arrogance she once wore like a crown Now, she looked like someone who had finally seen the wreckage of what she’d done

Mrs. Beck opened the door. Her voice was calm, polur. You may come in

The Duskelfly jolted. As if her words carried more power than any alpha’s howl

and you say did mor

Just yesterday twy were ready to shamar or again To strip me bars of diguay. Itury were still certain I was the villam

Now!

3:55 PM P P ·

Chapter 208

Finished

Now they knew.

I hadn’t hurt Tessa.

I hadn’t lured her into the Forest that night.

I hadn’t left her to bleed out under the claws of a rogue wolf.

I stood slowly, the words clawing their way up my throat. “Every day, I was slapped. Forced to kneel. Forced to drink toilet water like an animal. They stabbed me. Beat my legs until my bones shattered”

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