All Chapters of The Alpha’s Scarred Healer: Chapter 111 - Chapter 117

Raven / Scarlett’s POV“I do,” I admitted.The words came out breathless, but saying them made the strange sensation beneath my skin seem even stronger.“I don’t understand how,” I continued, searching Alpha Dimitri’s face. “But I can feel something.”His eyes darkened. “The bond.”A shiver ran through me at the certainty in his voice. I had spent so long believing I could never have a mate that even hearing those words should have frightened me.Instead, all I wanted was to be closer to him.I reached up and pulled Alpha Dimitri down to me, kissing him before I could start questioning any of it again. His arm tightened around my waist as he kissed me back, and the warmth beneath my skin surged until every part of me seemed aware of him.This time, when I shifted beneath him, I knew exactly what I wanted next.I worked him with my mouth and hand until his hips began to lift beneath me. Then I pulled away and moved back up his body.I positioned myself over him, taking control of what

Raven / Scarlett’s POVI felt terrible before I even made it back to the healers’ quarters. At first, I blamed Beta Petru. The conversation had left a sour feeling in my stomach, especially after hearing myself talk about what happened between Alpha Dimitri and me as though it had been nothing more than a task I had completed for him. Part of me wanted to turn around and slap him across the face. But the farther I walked, the more I realized this was something else.The warmth I had felt beneath my skin since last night was still there, but something had changed. A strange coldness now ran through the connection I still didn’t fully understand, growing stronger until I stopped in the middle of the corridor and pressed a hand against my chest. What was wrong with me?A frightening thought surfaced before I could stop it. Maybe I should tell Alpha Dimitri the truth myself.I pushed it away almost immediately, but keeping the truth from him was beginning to frighten me almost as much a

Raven / Scarlett’s POVI went quiet.“Do you even understand what you did to me?” His voice rose as he came closer. “Was last night part of Petru’s arrangement too? Was that why you came into my room? Why you kissed me? Why you climbed into my bed and let me believe that, for once, you were choosing me?”“I was choosing you.”“Stop lying to me!” His roar shook through the cell, and I flinched.“I’m not lying,” I cried. “What happened last night was real.”“And I’m supposed to believe that?” His eyes began to change as his wolf pushed closer to the surface, and claws slowly extended from his fingertips. “Your name was a lie. Where you came from was a lie. You stood beside me every fucking day and let me trust someone who didn’t even exist.” I had no answer to that, because he was right.He crossed the space between us and slammed one clawed hand into the stone beside my head.I flinched so hard my entire body recoiled from him.Alpha Dimitri froze.His eyes found mine, and whatever he

Alpha Dimitri’s POV“I don’t know!” Xena gasped.I pulled harder.Her knees hit the stone.A broken scream tore from her throat as the silver burned hotter against her skin. Tears spilled down her face, and the smell of burning flesh grew stronger until every breath filled my lungs with it. My own palm was blistering around the chain.Dimitri! Zedd yelled through our mindlink, but his relentless screaming could not provide me with the answers I so desperately needed.“I don’t know anything about witches!” Xena sobbed. “I swear!”I released enough pressure for her to breathe, but I didn’t let go of the chain.“Why did Scarlett save my life?”Xena stared up at me through tears, clearly thrown by the change in question. “What?”I tightened my fist around the silver. Agony shot through my hand and up my arm, but I kept my face still. “The night she found me dying. Why did she save me?”“Because she’s a healer!” Xena cried. “What was she supposed to do? Stand there and watch you die?”“Th