Chapter 255

Chapter 255 The Tear That Shook Them
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After Aubrey endured more than a dozen brushes with death, Alpha Henry finally found his resolve. He no longer felt as if the world were ending every time she faltered. Instead, he stayed by her side, choosing to believe in her, to encourage her.
“Aubrey! Wake up!”
His voice trembled slightly, but it remained steady in her ear, calling her name again and again.
“Aubrey!”
“Wake up!”
He clutched her hands tightly in both of his, as if holding her fast could stop her from slipping away.
“Wake up, please!”
After the injection of adrenaline, Aubrey’s eyes began darting beneath her lids, as though she were dreaming.
“What about the name Aubrey?”
In a familiar mountain cabin, an elegant old woman held a book in her hands. Calm and unhurried, she pointed to a line of text and said softly, “Aubrey, Aubrey. It rolls off the tongue nicely.”
Beside her, a bearded old man nodded. With a stroke of his pen, he wrote the name on the paper. “Good! That’s the one!”
He beckoned to a toddler wobbling nearby. “Come here, little dumpling. From now on, this will
your name. ”
be
The little girl really did look like a doughy bun, her round checks radiating innocent sweetness as she stumbled toward him.
Aubrey’s memory had always been sharp. Even as an infant, she could recall details–what color her grandfather’s clothes had been that day, the warmth of that morning sun streaming through the bamboo and spilling across the yard of their cabin.
Her grandmother covered her mouth with a smile. “Let’s hope one day your mate will cherish
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you as dearly as we do.”
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The scenes spun faster and faster–from a childhood of warmth, to adolescence, to adulthood. The later years grew darker. The grandparents who adored her passed away. Her doting mother died. Her father remarried, leaving her unwanted in her own home.
Then came the schemes, Alpha Henry’s cold rejection, the bullying at the werewolf academy, Shang Qianqian’s poison, the virus lab where she was reduced to nothing but a living experiment…
The visions grew more terrifying. She began to tremble, to cry, to run in fear.
She thought helplessly, If I can just endure this stretch, maybe things will get better. It has to be that
way…
But soon she realized–the more she resisted, the more she refused to submit, the harsher fate struck her down.
Every time she reached the edge, she forced herself not to give up. She knew the moment despair took hold, it would be the end.
But why? Why, after giving everything she had, did she still end up in dead ends she couldn’t escape?
Why?
A single tear slid down from the corner of her eye. The room fell silent.
Alpha Henry’s heart seized painfully. He reached out, gently brushing at that tear. But it felt like molten lava, searing his hand, burning a hollow straight into his chest.
“…What’s happening?”
Someone instinctively turned to look at Xavier. None of them had ever seen Aubrey cry before.
She had endured worse pain without a single tear. Why was she crying now?
And the moment she did, everyone’s hearts softened. An unshakable thought crept in–maybe this experiment shouldn’t continue.
Watching Aubrey suffer made their consciences ache, made their hands falter.
When Aubrey had faced it all with defiance, they could harden themselves. But now, seeing her cry, it felt as if their strength had been stripped away. They could no longer force themselves to Latest content published on.net
carry on.
For Alpha Henry, the pain was even greater than anyone else’s. The instant Aubrey’s tear fell,
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his eyes reddened too.
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