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Chapter 202
Perrin
“When’s the last time we’ve sparred?”
Ethan finished with his warm up. He had looked distracted when he got here, but was now the textbook of concentration and focus.
“Honestly? Way too long.” He grinned, and took up position on the opposite side of the floor.
“I’ve missed this,” I said openly. He knew how much I had missed him. How my right hand felt like it had been missing for the last few months.
He nodded, the natural grin of my best friend taking over as we began to circle each other. The downside of training with your best friend your entire life is that you knew every strength, every move they would make. They were predictable in their strengths as much as their
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The Unchosen Mate Chapter 203
Perrin“Again!”Jack’s form wasn’t anywhere near as polished as it should be. It’s as if he hadn’t even shown up to the Lodge for the last year.“Again!” I tried to keep the snarl out of my voice.He was sweating and panting as he had been going for nearly four hours. But he wasn’t good enough. He wasn’t ever going to be good enough.“Are you sure you’re not pushing him too far?” Seth sidled up behind me, watching Jack struggle against one of the Alpha Guard who offered to train this morning.“I’m not sure anyone has pushed him enough. He isn’t anywhere near ready to go up against Gowan!” I pause
The Unchosen Mate Chapter 204
LoMy alarm didn’t need to go off. I was awake already. So when the buzzing of my phone sounded from my side table, I turned it off without my normal disgruntled haze.The hint of a sunrise has been illuminating my shaded window for the better part of the last hour. I was mentally awake. Had been, really. A looming sense of stifled excitement that today was my eighteenth birthday.But as big of a deal as that typically was, I couldn’t help but feel that it was all a little anticlimactic. Not just because this was usually all about becoming eligible to mate. I was long past wanting that or even thinking it was right for me. Besides--it didn’t actually happen until the sun set on your eighteen birthday anyway. But it was typically a day in which an heirloom was passed from mother to daughter, moreso as an antiquated custo
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LoI ran to my bedside table and reached for my phone.I began to draft a text to Perrin, but another knock sounded at the door. I couldn’t imagine who it could possibly be and swung iit open.“HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” A confetti cannon exploded in my face and a sea of balloons clouded my vision.Ethan laughed as I stumbled backward, picking confetti out of his own hair.“Thank you,” I laughed, trying to pop my ears from the sound of the mechanism and brushing confetti out of my eyes. “That’s one way to do a wakeup call.”“You only turn eighteen once!” He beamed at me.“So they tell me,&r
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PerrinPERRIN: Did they make it ok?ETHAN: Yes. They were there before I got there this morning.PERRIN: Excellent. I’m glad she was pleased.ETHAN: You did a great job. Inviting them was an excellent ideaETHAN: Are you sure you just did that as a ‘friend?’PERRIN: Yes. We’re just friends. I’m in no headspace to think about any of that right now.ETHAN: Why not?PERRIN: Are you too wrapped up in your own mate to remember I broke up with my girlfriend of over two years like a week ago? For good?I stared at my phone after I sent the text. It was harsh. But I was being honest. And Ethan wouldn’t want anything else.ETHAN: You’ve been avoiding me. I knew it.
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Perrin“Alpha Nael?” My father said in genuine startlement. “I didn’t realize you’d be joining us this evening.” His voice was hard as steel. Mark took a reflexive step towards my father.Alpha Nael’s smile was a textbook vision of political sleaziness. “Salindra, as you may know, is a dear friend of mine. How dare you hide it from me that you brought her here!” His voice was thick with sarcastic censure. The mood in the room changed immediately from respectful excitement and anticipation to uneasy tension in the flash of a moment.His eyes swept the room as he led Salindra to her chair, making a show of taking her arm from his elbow. “Perrin, Ethan, Justin, good evening.” His voice was sinistar and dangerous. “Ah, and the healer who took such good care of my s
The Unchosen Mate Chapter 208
PerrinOnce I was seated, I noticed that Dina had brought up the first course. I sent a mind link to my father.What is Alpha Nael doing here?We don’t know. Are you ok?I’m fine. Just overdoing it.You have five days to get it together. I watched as he looked at Alpha Nael while he spoke to me. Rest is part of that.But what is he doing here? I repeated, eager to change the topic.Salindra’s out of her mind,
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Lo I stood in the men’s room, stunned into silence. I hadn’t meant to accuse him. I hadn’t really meant to bring Jaz up at all. I looked into the mirror, at the expensive dress. I couldn’t help but think that he had barely looked at me all night. In fact, he had looked like he was happy to look anywhere but at me. I wiped my nose, blinking hard, willing my makeup not to run. What the hell had this all been about? I took a step towards the mirror, running my hands over my face, willing my heart to stop hammering. I was half convinced every heartbeat could be seen through the fabric stretched across my chest.
The Unchosen Mate Chapter 210
LoThe room seemed to grow very still for several long moments, as if nobody dared to breathe.“Your… daughter?” Deidre finally stomached to ask.“Jesamine?” Mark breathed.“It’s not possible.” my father managed.The name had registered with all three of them, and it seemed clear that they had all known about the tragic car accident that had taken Nael’s wife and his daughter so many years ago. They had all thought she was dead. I had believed Jesamine was dead. Justin had told me so.I felt sick. This all had to be a bad joke. Except for the fact that Jaz
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