Mated to Her Alpha Instructor (Eileen and Regis) novel Chapter 17

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bathed vandied deen the corridor, my hand still gripping the frame hard enough that the wood creaked under my fingers of a Buncit had kleit, hit her rem lingered, now soured with fear and grief, and it wrapped around my throat like a noose.

Dolder whined to my mind, pacing restlessly. She needs us to explain. She thinks we’re rejecting her-

Be the word out, low and rough ‘She’s terrified. If I chase her now, shell only see me as a threat.”

Behit aild feel his pain radiating through our shared consciousness–the mate bond pulling taut between us and the girl who was running from from as, as fast as her legs could carry her. Every instinct screamed at me to follow, to corner her somewhere safe and make her listen, to hold her

understood that I had never, would never, think of her as a mistake.

Tee teen the look in her eyes just before she fled. Pure panic. The kind of fear that came from believing you were about to lose something you’d never mally had in the First place.

Lexified slowly, released my death grip on the doorframe, and turned back into my office. The mug she’d abandoned sat on the corner of my desk, still half- fof cooling coffee, and the sight of it–so small, so ordinary–made something crack open in my chest.

She’d been sitting right there. My mate. The girl who’d saved my life in the Whispering Woods, who’d knelt in the dirt and pressed her hands to my wounds and poured her own energy into healing me even though she had no wolf of her own to sustain the effort.

And now that I’d found her–now that I knew her name, her face, the way her voice trembled when she was afraid–she wanted to pretend it had never happened

I moved to the window, braced my hands on the sill, and stared out at the training yard below. Students were filtering back to their dormitories, their laughter drifting up through the late afternoon air, oblivious to the storm raging inside me.

handied that badly, I said aloud, more to myself than to Valdor. ‘I should have been gentler. Should have found better words.”

Or maybe, Valdor said quietly, you should have told her the truth. That she’s ours. That we’ll never let her go.

That would hear terrified her even more. She doesn’t understand what the bond means.” I rubbed a hand over my face, exhaustion settling into my bones. “May I should know more about her, about what she was facing alone.”

khat the dur pulled me from my thoughts. I straightened, schooling my expression into something resembling calm. “Come in.”

Kesan Blackand stepped through my Beta, my best friend since our academy days. We’d fought side by side in the border wars, and the bastard could read

like an open book. His amber eyes swept over me, taking in everything I was trying to hide.

“Begia” He closed the door and leaned back against it, arms crossed “You look like hell. What’s eating at you? A pause, then a slight smirk. Don’t tell me a bunch of non–warrior students gave you trouble. That’s not the Regis I know.”

I didnt answer right away Instead, I turned back to the window, watching the last threads of sunlight bleed from the sky.

“Kieran,” I said finally, my voice quieter than I intended. “What happens when a wolfless person gets marked by an Alpha? When they can’t bite back to complete the bond?

The silence stretched between us. When Kieran finally spoke, his voice had lost all traces of humor. “That’s… a very specific question, Regis. Why are you

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and meld hear him shifting hex wright, considering his words. Finally: I had a distant aunt. She was poisoned with silver he was omged me who to manifest. At nineteen, the met her fated mare. A young Beta. He marked her during her heat.”

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