Rebirth of the Alpha's Slave Mate (Samantha and Kade) novel Chapter 32

Chapter 32

Samantha’s POV

The moment those words left my mouth, I regretted them. I’d just condemned myself with a single sentence; there was no way I should have known Kade was looking for me, Samantha, his mate. From his point of view, I should have been oblivious to all of it.

I’d just made things so much worse for myself, hadn’t I?

“I never mentioned my mate,” Kade said slowly. Coldly. “And I never said the person I was looking for was the one who died.”

I bit the inside of my cheek so hard I felt the coppery taste of blood fill my mouth. How could I have been so stupid? As if it wasn’t bad enough as it was, I had to go and say that?

Kade tilted his head in that way again. “You look like you saw a ghost,” he said, gray eyes flickering with something dark and dangerous. It was a look I knew all too well-the kind of look he had when he was calculating. Scheming. When he was being too smart and too astute for anyone’s good.

I swallowed hard, struggling to force my face into an expression of neutrality. “I-I don’t—”

“What are you doing?”

My shoulders deflated with a sigh of relief at the sound of Tyler’s familiar voice. Kade instinctively took a small step back, although he didn’t walk away as Tyler strode over and positioned himself between us.

Without thinking, I reached out and wrapped my hands around Tyler’s arm, pulling him an inch closer. He let me lean against him, drawing strength from his presence. With him there, I felt safer.

For once, I felt like I could face Kade.

Kade’s POV

When Kade had first seen her standing there in her dress, he had been struck by her beauty. The girl who looked so much like Samantha stood out amongst all of the other women in attendance tonight, like a golden star shining bigger and brighter than all the rest in the night sky.

She didn’t look like an ex-rogue or an Omega.

She looked like Samantha.

But the attraction he felt for her was quickly overshadowed by the frustration he felt. After all, she really did look like Samantha-too much like her, in fact. And for a moment, just a moment, he felt the pull of the bond that should have died with Samantha.

It was brief, so brief that he almost wasn’t sure if he imagined it, but it was there-like a faint flicker of recognition in the back of his mind.

Mate.

But… Wasn’t she wolfless? And Kade’s mate had been Şamantha, who was dead. It didn’t make any sense.

However, when Kade tried to press her for answers, she refused to give them to him. The only response she gave him was cryptic and made things even more confusing than before.

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“I assure you, I’m not the person you’re looking for. Your mate is already dead.”

How did she know that Samantha was the one he was searching for? She shouldn’t have known; no one knew that

Samantha was his mate.

None of it made sense. And all of it made Kade’s frustration bubble up like a pot about to boil over.

And now, as he watched her put her hand on another man’s arm, a surge of jealousy washed over him that was so intense he nearly wrapped his fingers around Tyler’s throat then and there.

Tyler. It was fucking Tyler again-the same one who had forbidden Kade from seeing her, from letting Kade take what was his or at least find answers.

Whatever strength she seemed to draw from Tyler set Kade’s nerve endings on fire, as if they weren’t already. He didn’t fully understand what was going on, but he knew one thing: she was his mate. And Kade needed answers.

“Are you alright?” Tyler turned to her, placing his hand over hers. “Is he bothering you?”

The girl parted her lips, but no words came out.

“We were having a private discussion,” Kade cut in, taking a step closer. His voice dropped to a dangerous octave. “A discussion that had nothing to do with you.”

Tyler’s eyes flashed. “It’s my house. My pack. I think it has plenty to do with me.”

“And it’s the full moon,” Kade pointed out, gesturing around them at the revelry. By midnight, when the full moon was at its most powerful, wolves would begin to find their mates and pair up. Already, they were sensing each other. “My wolf senses a connection with this girl. I have every right to speak to her without interruption.”

The girl paled further, gently tugging on Tyler’s arm as if to pull him away, but Tyler wasn’t looking at her now. Look, I’m not even sure who allowed you to attend the Alpha Ball tonight, but you should consider it a mercy that you haven’t been thrown out for what you did the last time you visited the pack; continue harassing the guests, and I’ll see to it that it’s done. This is a party, not an interrogation room.”

Kade’s wolf growled possessively as he made those threats. He could feel his hackles rising, every instinct in him screaming to push him away from her, to take what was Kade’s by fate, to ignore Tyler’s empty warnings.

”

Briefly letting the fury take hold, he took another step toward him. “Who said I was interrogating her? I only had a few questions.” He glanced at the girl who looked too much like Samantha-only healthier, more filled out, like the Samantha who had come to him all those years ago, just older than she was then. “Questions that she only needs to answer honestly, and then I’ll drop the matter. All I want is her name.”

Her face paled further. Kade could see her fingers trembling faintly as they dug into Tyler’s arm. But all it took from him was a gentle touch, and her shaking stopped. She lifted her chin and met Kade’s gaze steadily.

“If she doesn’t want to answer your questions,” Tyler said quietly, “then she doesn’t have to.”

Another surge of emotions shot through Kade-jealousy and outrage in equal measure.

“She’s ours,” Kade’s wolf snarled, frustrated and angry. “I can sense the bond. She’s lying-they’re all lying.”

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