After I left Alpha father and son went crazy with regret novel Chapter 203

“I’m at the airport,” Nora interrupted, her tone quiet but firm.

Arnold inhaled sharply. “Then wait. I’m coming.”

Silence.

Then, a deep breath from the other end.

The next words she spoke sent a shock through him.

"I, Nora, reject you, Arnold, as my mate."

His breath caught, his entire body seizing up as an invisible force ripped through his soul.

The mate bond... the sacred connection that had always tethered them... snapped like a cord cut with a blade.

The pain was instant. A sharp, twisting agony that was not physical, but something deeper... something primal. His wolf howled in protest, but there was nothing he could do.

And then, she was gone.

The mind-link shattered.

The emptiness left behind was suffocating.

Arnold pressed a hand to his chest, gasping slightly. It felt like something had been torn out of him, leaving a hollow void.

His phone vibrated in his pocket. Mechanically, he pulled it out.

A message.

“The signed divorce papers are in the mail. By the time you sign them, you’ll be free.”

Arnold stared at the words, his grip tightening around the device.

Free.

The word felt like an illusion, a cruel joke.

For years, he had believed he wanted nothing more than to be rid of her... to be untangled from the bond that tied them together…

It was unexpectedly painful for him to go through all this. He just didn’t think it through..

And deep down Nora knew the feelings of Arnold and that he was in love with her but just too blurred to see his own feelings and that is why Nora stayed even beyond her endurance…

Arnold had spent years convincing himself that it was Nora who had failed their relationship, that it was her persistence, her insistence on holding onto the bond, that made things complicated.

But now, standing in the emptiness of his own choices, he understood too late... before he could even begin to see the truth of his own heart, Nora had already given up on him.

And she was gone.

The weight of it settled deep in his chest, a gnawing ache that refused to fade. He sat in silence, gripping the signed divorce papers as if they held the remnants of something he had once taken for granted.

…

At the airport, Nora exhaled deeply, steadying herself. Her fingers rested lightly on her abdomen... a subconscious gesture, as if to ground herself. The plane’s boarding call was still a few minutes away, but her heart felt miles ahead.

She had chosen this. She had chosen herself.