Rebirth of the Alpha's Slave Mate (Samantha and Kade) novel Chapter 197

Chapter 197

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“Well?” she finally asked, removing her glasses and rubbing the red spot on her nose where they always pinched her skin. “How did it go?”

Setting aside my food, I sighed and explained Debbie’s condition to her. Her brow furrowed further and further as I told her about the symptoms and my inability to sense the source of the illness.

When I was finished, she thought for a long time, then scurried over to her bookshelf and scanned the titles. She pulled out several books and plopped them onto my lap. “Start with these,” she said.

I looked down at the veritable mountain of books. The titles ranged from “Disorders of the Mind: Wolf Psychosis and Beyond” to “Hidden Illnesses and Ways to Find Them”. I had already read several of them, but rereading them wouldn’t hurt.

“Thanks.” I shoved the last bite of my second sandwich into my mouth, washed it down with the rest of my coffee, then hopped down from the filing cabinet and gathered everything up. “I’ll get started right away.”

Jayne nodded. “Don’t feel bad if you can’t sense her illness with your ability, Elena. You’ll figure it out, just like the rest of us do.”

I hesitated in the doorway. “I don’t feel bad.”

“Right. And I’m the Alpha of Nightshade.”

As always, Jayne saw right through me like I was made of fucking glass-and then she was right back to her textbook like I wasn’t even there. I shook my head good-naturedly and left her to her work after that.

I had nearly made it back to my room when a familiar figure stepped out of the reading room ahead of me, holding a small book between her fingers. Natasha’s face immediately pinched into her usual scowl the moment she saw me.

“I’d heard you were back already.” She snapped her book shut. “Rumor has it you couldn’t heal your patient with your special ‘ability’. Maybe it’s not so special after all, and more suited for the wilds, where the rogues live

in their little tribes.”

“Hello to you, too, Natasha.” I ignored her jab and brushed past her. I knew she would continue to make her usual digs at me, but she wouldn’t try anything severe now. Not when I was still holding onto the little memory of what she and Melvin had done, ready to reveal everything to my father if need be.

“Elena! There you are.” My father emerged from the study on the other side of the hall and grinned. “I was looking for you. I just received this.”

He held a piece of white cardstock out to me, and I took it. It was an invitation to this year’s Alpha Ball-hosted by Embergrove pack, one of our neighboring packs, this time around.

So my father was still on that, wasn’t he?

I really didn’t want to go, even though I’d told him I would. But after what happened in Crescent Hollow, seeing the product of Serena and Kade’s marriage… I couldn’t deny that there were some… interesting feelings swirling around my head now.

Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to go. Even if I had no intention of meeting anyone, a night of dancing and joy might not

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be the worst idea.

“Of course, you’ll want a new dress if you’re going to meet your second chance mate,” my father said, then turned to Natasha. “Natasha, maybe you could take Elena to that new boutique in town. You two could have a girls’ day!”

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