Rebirth of the Alpha's Slave Mate (Samantha and Kade) novel Chapter 183

Chapter 183

Elena’s POV

The sun warmed the side of my face, gently waking me from sleep. I cracked my eyes open to find myself laying in my bed, dressed in warm, clean pajamas with my wet hair combed and braided. My body still ached from running nonstop for hours, but the fever had subsided.

“You’re awake.” I looked over at the sound of my father’s voice to see him and Tyler in my room; Tyler was standing by the window, looking out, and my father was sitting on a chair next to my bed. Both of their faces were drawn with worry.

“How are you feeling?” Tyler asked, walking over to me.

I sat up against my pillows. “Much better.”

My father and brother looked at me, and then my father said, “Do you care to explain why you showed up last night in the middle of a rainstorm? Soaking wet and without your car?”

I really didn’t want to recount everything, but I didn’t want to leave them in the dark. Over the next few minutes, I told them everything that happened: my last-minute decision to go to Crescent Hollow, the rogues that stole Tyler’s old truck, the guards at the gates, and Serena forcing me to leave before I could even check on Debbie.

Strangely, what hurt the most was recounting what she had said.

My child.

My voice choked up as I recounted that part of the story. I didn’t cry-I refused to-but it still sent a pang through my chest that lingered like a twisting knife. I should have expected that Kade and Serena would have had a child by now, but after what had happened to Ivy, it bothered me more than I expected.

“They replaced her,” I whispered. “They replaced Ivy with their own child. Like she never existed.”

Tyler and Samson didn’t speak for a long moment.

Finally, my father took my hand and gently squeezed my fingers. “Elena, I think it’s time for you to move on.”

I blinked at him. “What do you mean?”

“You’re twenty-eight now. Don’t you want to settle down? Find a nice mate and put Kade and Serena far behind you? Besides, all this traveling on your own is dangerous. You could be a very successful healer right here in the pack.”

I clenched my teeth together and refused to answer. The thought of “settling down” felt like an insult. I had only been a traveling healer for a year now, and I liked it. I wasn’t ready to give it up for a man. My work was my life. My vows were my life.

And yet, as I thought about it, I couldn’t help but wonder if my father was right to some extent.

Maybe it was time to put my past with Kade behind me, if nothing else.

Lana appeared in the doorway then, holding a tray of tea and buttery toast. “Out. Both of you,” she said, jerking

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her head toward the door. “Don’t make me say it again.”

Both Tyler and my father begrudgingly left. Once we were alone, Lana came over and set the tray on my bedside

table.

“Dad and brother trying to convince you to become a housewife again?” she asked.

I snorted. “Not quite.” I sighed. “But I’m not ready to settle down.”

Lana understood. She always did. While I munched on the toast to regain some strength, she walked over to my closet and began rifling through it. “What are you doing?” I asked, mouth full as she emerged with a slinky black

dress.

“Looking for something for you to wear tonight. What do you think?” She held up the dress, and I wrinkled my nose, to which she nodded and disappeared into the closet again.

By that night, Lana had convinced me to go to the tavern with her, not that it took much convincing; I needed a reprieve from the stifling atmosphere in the house and the way my family kept looking at me like I was a charity

case.

I also needed to get away from Natasha, who looked like she would rather have literally anyone else in the world around except for me.

At the tavern, I found a table in the corner while Lana ordered our drinks. Despite her best efforts, I had insisted on wearing a simple pair of jeans and a sweater, insisting that it was too chilly out tonight to get dressed up. Really, I had just grown too accustomed to this uniform of mine and wasn’t really in the mood for fancy dresses or heels.

Lana, though, didn’t let that stop her. I smirked as every male’s head in the tavern turned as she strutted up to the bar, clad in a tight pink dress and three-inch stilettos that made her impressive leg muscles pop even more.

While I waited, I sank a little further down into my seat and sighed. When I was with Lana, just the two of us, everything else normally fell away; but tonight, the tavern just felt like a poor distraction from those words that wouldn’t stop swirling around in my head.

Serena and Kade had a child.

I tried not to think about it, but I couldn’t help it. Was it a boy or a girl? Did they have Serena’s golden hair, or Kade’s dark strands? Gray eyes or blue?

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