Alpha Mordecai: Love & Obsession のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 81 - チャプター 87

Noah’s POVI rubbed both hands over my face and stared at the ceiling of my office.Something wasn’t adding up.I had been sitting with this thought for hours, going over it again and again.Willow wasn’t a trained warrior.She wasn’t someone who had contacts outside the territory.She didn’t have money saved away somewhere. She was a wolfless omega who had spent eleven years doing laundry and eating whatever was left at the end of the day.So how had she disappeared so completely?She had been injured. The healer had said she had taken a hard blow to the head after falling down the stairs.I pressed my fingers against my eyes.I had not let myself think about the stairs properly since it happened. Every time the thought came, I quickly redirected my mind by focusing on work, on Stacey’s complaints, and on whatever my father was saying.I was still doing it now.I pushed back from my desk and stood up. I needed air. I needed to move.I left my office and walked without any particular

Willow’s POVI surfaced slowly, the way you come up from deep water when you’ve been under for too long.Everything felt heavy. My arms, my legs, even my eyelids. Opening my eyes took so much effort.The first thing I saw was a plain white ceiling I didn’t recognize.Then the smell of herbs and disinfectant reached me.I was in a clinic.My stomach tightened at that realization. The last time I had woken up in a clinic, my entire life had fallen apart in a few minutes. I had woken up to Alpha Kelvin standing over me, telling me my child was gone, telling me I would wish he had killed me instead.I braced myself for the familiar pain that came with those memories.But it didn’t come.There was an ache, yes. But it was a dull one, like an old bruise that had healed.The memories were still there. I could still see the healer’s herbs on that shelf back at Pinecrest, still hear Kelvin’s flat voice delivering the worst news of my life. But none of it had the same sharpness anymore.I trie

Willow’s POVI drifted off again with his hand still around mine.I had asked him quietly, not to let go, and he hadn’t. It was strange how much easier sleep came knowing he was still sitting there.I wasn’t sure how long I had been out when the sound of the clinic door opening pulled me halfway back to consciousness.I kept my eyes closed. I was too tired to move, and I assumed it was the healer coming to check on me again.Instead, Diana’s voice filled the room.“Are you still here?” She asked Mordecai.She didn’t sound surprised. She sounded exasperated, the way she always did when I did something exhausting.“Don’t start,” Mordecai said.“I’m not starting anything.” There was a pause, and I could feel her scowling. “You haven’t slept. You haven’t changed those clothes. You haven’t left this chair in two days.”Another pause. “In all the years I’ve known you, I have never once seen you behave like this for anyone.”Mordecai said nothing.“Not even for me,” Diana went on. “But you s

Willow’s POVTwo weeks later, I was finally discharged.I woke up and looked at the chair beside my bed out of habit.It was empty.I told myself it didn’t matter. Mordecai probably had pack matters to deal with.But I had been in this clinic for two weeks, and he hadn’t come by since that conversation with Diana I wasn’t supposed to have overheard and that gentle forehead kiss.I got dressed slowly, my side still tender, and before I left the room I found myself glancing at the chair one more time.I caught myself doing it and scowled at nothing in particular.“Stupid,” I muttered under my breath.I finished pulling my hair back and was reaching for the door, but it opened before I got there.Hela stood in the doorway.This was the first time she had come to see me since it happened. She didn’t hug me. She didn’t ask how I was feeling. She just looked me over, head to toe, the same way she assessed a fighter before a match.“You’re alive,” she said finally. “Good. It would've been a