My Alpha Said Get Out—So I Did Chapter 08

My Alpha Said Get Out—So I Did Chapter 08

My question wasn’t hard to answer.

If Silas had ever paid even a little attention to me, he would have known.

Love was the way I had been with him.

My heart full of him.

My eyes full of him.

No matter what he did, I always believed he had his reasons.

No matter what he said, I always made excuses for him.

But now, he was telling me—well, it’s not the way I am with Tessa.

I took a soft breath and asked him, “You never liked listening to me.

Every time, you told me to get out.

You never cared about anything I said.

My voice was always annoying and irritating to you.”

Silas instinctively spoke up.

“No.

I don’t dislike you.

I…”

“You don’t dislike me.

But you don’t like me either.” I looked at him, my voice so calm it felt unfamiliar even to myself. “Silas Calder.

You can spend a lifetime tolerating someone you don’t like.

But I can’t.

What I want is a man who truly loves me.

I’m the daughter Garrett and Marianne raised like a treasure in their palms.

My parents love each other.

My family is happy.

Why should I find an Alpha who doesn’t love me and spend my whole life walking on eggshells?”

My words left Silas speechless.

He looked at me with dark, heavy eyes, swirling with emotions I couldn’t read — and no longer wanted to.

“Liora.

I never said I don’t like you.

I just don’t know how to like someone.

The reason I recorded lullabies for Tessa was that she slept poorly.

She said her wolf could only calm down when she heard my voice.

She begged me, and I… couldn’t easily refuse.”

Couldn’t easily refuse.

Hearing that explanation, I suddenly found my past self truly ridiculous.

“Silas.

Do you remember the high school dance?

I was suddenly in so much pain I couldn’t stand.

My face was deathly pale.

I crouched by the roadside, crying, begging you to just help me up.

What did you say then?”

Back then, I was shaking from the pain all over.

I didn’t even have the strength to stand.

I cried and begged him to help me.

But he stood there perfectly straight and only dropped one line: “Stop faking it.”

Then he turned and walked away.

Silas clearly remembered it too.

His expression stiffened slightly.

I went on.

“You were clearly my dance partner, but you wouldn’t even help me up.

So when you were helping Tessa—did you ever stop to think that you were supposed to marry me the next day?

A husband who was cold and heartless to me, who only ever said ‘get out’—yet turned around and gently recorded lullabies for another woman.

Did you ever think about how much that would hurt me once I found out?”

He hadn’t.

He’d never thought about it.

He’d only ever thought of himself.

When he’d treated me poorly in the past, I’d always thought he was like that with everyone.

I could even comfort myself—Silas is just cold.

Silas just isn’t good at expressing himself.

It wasn’t until Tessa appeared that I learned the truth: he could smile.

He could sing.

He could gently soothe someone’s wolf.

Silas’s throat moved.

His voice dropped low.

“If you think what I did was wrong… I apologize.” His expression was serious, as if he were processing a pack document. “I won’t help her anymore.

So you can forgive me now, right?”

A belated apology was worthless to begin with—let alone one this insincere, from someone who didn’t even know what he’d done wrong.

I looked at him and suddenly felt very tired.

“Silas.

Do you really think you did something wrong?”

He pressed his lips together.

After a moment of silence, he said, “I don’t know.

But if you say it was wrong, then it was wrong.”

Hearing that, a suffocating sense of helplessness rose in my chest.

“Silas Calder.

You’re not the type to pester people unreasonably.

Don’t come looking for me anymore.”

A trace of confusion and helplessness showed in Silas’s eyes.

“Did I say something wrong again?

Or are you angry about the fireworks I set off for Tessa?

I can explain.

It was her birthday that day.

She said she’d never received a proper gift.

She just wanted to watch some fireworks.

As her Alpha, I was only granting a subordinate’s birthday wish.”

He said it openly, as if he truly didn’t see anything wrong with it.

“As for what people said online—I don’t know why they were spouting nonsense.

But you’re a smart person.

You shouldn’t have believed it.”

I pressed my lips together.

For a moment, I truly didn’t know what to say.

In the end, I only reminded him quietly: “Silas.

It’s been twenty years.

You’ve never once given me a birthday gift.”