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The Mate He Took for Granted Chapter 9
Dr. Hurst reached remission in early spring.The morning we were due to fly north, the airport smelled of coffee, jet fuel, and wet pavement. Nova slept inside a carrier at my feet while Ash occupied the seat beside me like a retired king. Dr. Hurst was arguing with a gate agent about whether a hematologist's letter entitled her to two extra bags.My phone buzzed.[Alliance Tribunal Alert: Vanessa Blackwood has escaped medical custody. Do not approach. Contact territorial security with any information.]Every instinct in my body went still.Vanessa had been transferred to a psychiatric facility after attacking a guard during her fraud sentence. The facility sat three hours away. There was no reason to think she'd come here.Then Nova hissed.Vanessa stood beyond the security doors in a stolen nurse's uniform. Her blond hair had been hacked short, and rage had carved years into her face. She held one hand inside her jacket."You took everything," she said.Travelers turned. A guard reac
The Mate He Took for Granted Chapter 8
Dr. Hurst's first treatment cycle lasted twenty-nine days.I spent most of them between the hospital and the guest cottage, reviewing lab data at the kitchen table while Ash slept across my notes. At seventeen, he was more gray than black and deeply offended by travel, but he still yelled whenever I opened tuna.On the tenth morning, I found a small tabby kitten on the porch with a note attached to her carrier.[Ash's granddaughter. The shelter was going to send her outside the territory. No obligation—if you don't want her, I'll find another home.]I looked across the yard. Adrian was repairing a fence nearly two hundred yards away. He never glanced toward the cottage.The kitten climbed into Ash's bed, bit his ear, and went to sleep on his tail. He sighed like a wolf burdened by fools.I named her Nova.Adrian and I spoke only when Dr. Hurst's care required it. He drove blood samples through an ice storm when the courier service shut down. He found an apartment for her nurse near the
The Mate He Took for Granted Chapter 7
Eight years passed.Northstar's wolfsbane neutralizer began as three unstable proteins in a freezer and became the first treatment capable of reversing acute poisoning after the toxin reached a wolf's bloodstream. It saved forty-three lives during the first field trial.My name appeared at the top of the published study.At the Alliance medical summit in Vancouver, I stood beneath a white spotlight while two hundred physicians rose to applaud. Dr. Hurst sat in the front row, thinner than she'd been the year before but smiling like she intended to outshine the stage.When I stepped down, she wrapped me in a fierce hug. "You did it, Carter.""We did it.""Don't get sentimental on me. I hate a public scene."Her joke couldn't hide how badly her hands were shaking.Three weeks later, the diagnosis came back: acute myeloid leukemia. Even with a werewolf's healing, the disease moved aggressively. Dr. Hurst chose a specialist at the regional hospital outside Blackwood territory because he was
The Mate He Took for Granted Chapter 6
Once Adrian started looking, the lies came apart fast.The medical-center salary was only the beginning. Vanessa had charged designer clothes, spa weekends, and hotel suites to the widow’s relief fund. The Redfang wolf had helped move the money through accounts outside Blackwood territory. Together, they’d siphoned nearly half a million dollars from accounts meant for families who’d lost wolves on patrol.Marcus's death had made Vanessa untouchable. She'd used his sacrifice as both shield and key.The worst discovery waited in the security archive.Adrian found footage from the night Vanessa claimed she’d tried to kill herself. The camera outside the guest wing showed her entering the bathroom with the same Redfang wolf six minutes before I arrived. It showed the man leaving through the service door with a small vial in his hand.When the paramedics tested her blood that night, they'd found only a mild sedative—nowhere near enough to stop a werewolf's heart.Vanessa hadn't been dying.
The Mate He Took for Granted Chapter 5
Northstar sat between a frozen inlet and a wall of black spruce, two hours from the nearest town and farther north than most pack wolves ever cared to travel.The work suited me immediately.No one there asked whose mate I was. They cared whether I could isolate a wolfsbane compound without destroying its medicinal properties, whether my trial notes were clean, and whether I could keep my head during a containment breach.For the first month, I slept ten hours a night and still woke tired. Dr. Hurst called it decompression."Your body finally figured out the emergency is over," she told me over coffee. "Give it time to believe you."I changed my number. I kept one email account open because Alliance law required a channel for dissolving pack ties, but I filtered Adrian's messages into a folder I never checked.He sent one every day.[Please tell me you're safe.][I should've listened.][The job is yours if you come back.][I found the music box pieces. I'm having it restored.]That las
The Mate He Took for Granted Chapter 4
At four that afternoon, Adrian left the council hall with a velvet box in his pocket and a rare sense of satisfaction.He'd spent three months having the Luna ring made. The black diamond had come from the old Blackwood mine, and the silver band carried the crest of his bloodline. He'd even booked the glass conservatory where we'd first met and ordered the same wildflowers I'd carried at our private mating ceremony.Vanessa had called twice during the meeting. He'd silenced both calls.[Tonight is Elena's,] he'd told himself. [She deserves that much.]He hadn't forgotten our anniversary. Not really. He'd only been waiting for the right moment to make up for the years he'd kept me in the shadows.At least, that was the story he told himself on the drive home.The house was too quiet when he walked in. My coat was gone from the hook. The ceramic mug I always left beside the sink wasn't there, and Ash's food bowl had disappeared from the laundry room."Elena?" Adrian called as he took the
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