《Alpha Raphael's Second Chance Mate 》全部章節：第 11 章 - 第 20 章

NORA The pain woke me up before my alarm did. This was duller and deeper and it sat right at the base of my abdomen where the scar from the section was still working through whatever it needed to work through. I pressed my hand against it and lay back for a minute breathing steadily until it settled enough for me to sit up.Daniel had asked me to come in that morning and I had said yes mostly because arguing with him felt like more effort than just going.I got dressed slowly and made my way through the pack to the hospital. The morning was cold and the pack was already moving around me and I walked through it with my hand occasionally pressing against my side when the ache flared up.Daniel was waiting when I arrived. He gestured to the examination table and I climbed up,he worked through the check quietly and methodically the way he always did, not rushing anything,and not making it feel like more than it was."The healing is faster than I had thought," he said, pressing careful

RAPHAEL"Alpha Rapheal!" Wren's voice hit me the second I pushed the door open and she threw herself at me before I had fully stepped inside, Caden right behind her doing the same thing, both of them grabbing onto me at the same time."Both of you just kept growing while I was not around. A whole year and you show up taller than I expected," I muttered, pulling them in. Isolde stood back watching with that expression she always had when she was pleased about something but was not going to say so directly."Mum told us you are getting married to Iris. Is she your mate?" Wren pulled back and looked up at me, her eyes already moving toward Iris who was standing nearby with her whole face lit up."He is mine and we are getting married soon, right after your graduation," Iris said, stepping forward with that bright smile she kept ready for moments like this, her eyes cutting briefly to Nora who had come down the stairs and stopped near the door. Nora looked at all of us without saying an

NORA I was getting ready for pack training when Isolde walked into my room without knocking.She looked at me the way she had been looking at me since she arrived. Like I was something unpleasant she kept finding in places she did not expect.I greeted her. She ignored it completely."Go help in the kitchen. You'll be serving the pack after training," she said, her eyes moving around my room like she was inspecting it."Ma'am, I was supposed to be at pack training," I said, keeping my eyes on her.She laughed. Short and sharp."You think you belong here? In my pack?" She rolled her eyes. "You're a stranger under this roof. That makes you a slave. Go join the maids."I pressed my foot into the floor slowly."I was never a slave, ma'am. If you want me gone, I will go. But I won't be treated as one.""Any stranger living under this pack is a slave. You are here. That is what you are." She turned toward the door. "My son's captive. Nothing more.""With due respect, ma'am." She paused at

NORA The mate bond is getting harder to ignore.I don't know when it started becoming this loud. Maybe it was always there and I was too busy surviving to notice it properly. But lately it's always there every single day. Constant. No matter how hard I try, I'm always feeling it. The constant pull. The urge to be with him, the constant cravings. Small things keep happening.Raphael always knows where I am in the pack. I don't tell him. Nobody tells him. He just knows. I'll be on the east field or near Daniel's office or sitting outside the chambers and within minutes he shows up. Not making a big deal of it. He's also not saying anything about it. And I always know when he enters a room before I see him.Every time.I don't even have to look up. My body just knows. He's there. Cold and all. Just there.It's annoying.Very annoying.Sera is completely unbearable about it. She has been for days and she's getting worse not better.I tried to have a good conversation with mysel

NORA I'm in my room going through the files Damon dropped off when the knock comes.Alpha Raphael.He stands at the doorway with that uneasy expression he always has. It's always old. Unreadable. His eyes move around the room briefly and then settle on me."Can I come in?" he asks."Yes," I say.He walks in and stands near the window. Like he always does, whenever he enters my room.I go back to the files on the desk and wait."Iris spoke to you at breakfast," he says.His voice was calm, collected and not as icy as it was before.I look up at him. "Yes.""I heard what she said."I put the files down. "Who told you?""It doesn't matter," he says. His voice is calm. "It won't happen again.""I handled it," I say."I know you did.""Then there's nothing else to discuss," I say. "I don't need you to go after her on my behalf."He looks at me. "I'm not going after anyone on your behalf.""Then what are you doing?""Making sure my pack conducts itself according to its own rules," he sa