Rebirth of the Alpha's Slave Mate (Samantha and Kade) novel Chapter 173

Chapter 173

Elena’s POV

“So it’s you who I was searching for all along…”

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I stared at Kade for a long moment, not sure now to react to that statement.

He had been… looking for me?

I couldn’t tell if he meant Samantha-the girl I hadn’t been in more than seven years-or the healer that the rogues called “Silver One”.

Either way, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to find out. And I especially didn’t want to give him any information about the new life I had built for myself, starting from the ashes of the old life he had burnt to rubble.

The seven years that had passed hadn’t eased so much as an ounce of the hatred I felt for Kade. All those years ago, when I held Ivy’s bloody baby blanket for the first time, I had made a vow to hate him forever-and to never see him again.

I intended to keep those vows, just as I kept the vows I’d made when I took my oath as a healer.

So I wrenched my wrist away and turned to leave.

“Wait!” Kade called out, jogging after me. “I came here tonight because I need to talk to you, Elena. I need your help.”

I curled my lip indignantly. He needed my help? After all the fucking shit he put me through, he thought I was going to help him? I might have laughed at the mere notion, had I not been too angry to do even that much.

“I have no interest in helping you,” I replied curtly, continuing to walk away. “Get away from me, before I call the guards.”

“Elena.” Kade grabbed my wrist again. He didn’t flinch when I whirled on him and dug my claws into his arm. He didn’t even seem to notice the blood that began to stain the cuff of his shirt. “Please. You’re a healer, and a renowned one at that. Can’t you just hear me out?”

I didn’t retract my claws, but there was something in his eyes that made me stop pressing them into his flesh.

Desperation.

Throughout my life-my old life, before I made that vow to never to see him again-I had seen a few emotions flicker through those grey eyes. Anger, frustration, hatred. Usually, they were just cold and unfeeling. On a rare occasion, perhaps I saw surprise or something softer, something that I knew now to be a farce. Kade was incapable of love or tenderness.

But this… I had never seen Kade look so desperate before. So broken. Like he might collapse to his knees and start begging if I didn’t hear him out.

The logical part of my brain screamed that it was an act, just like those brief flickers of tenderness had once been. He was only trying to manipulate me for his own gain, and who knew what he planned to do with me?

But there was another voice in the back of my mind, the same voice that insisted on helping the sick and the

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hurt, the silver threads that ran through my wolf’s fur, that saw that desperation and wanted to hear what he had to say.

Please, he had said. I need your help.

If there was one thing I knew about Kade, it was that he never asked for help. He would rather die by a thousand cuts than admit weakness.

But now he was looking at me like he truly, genuinely, wanted a savior.

Suddenly, footsteps pounded down the hall. Kade and I both jerked our heads up as Tyler came skidding around the corner. The moment my brother’s eyes caught sight of Kade’s hand wrapped firmly around my wrist, and my claws digging into his sleeve, his face darkened dangerously.

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