Alpha Xander's Undoing Chasing my Unknown Mate Back novel Chapter 55

Chapter 55

Chapter 55

*Rory*

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I woke with dirt under my nails and my sweater on backward.

Again.

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It was the third time this week I’d come to in some place I didn’t remember walking into, with no memory of how long I’d been there or what I’d done. This time it was the old greenhouses behind the eastern wing- abandoned years ago after a frost killed the last of the moon-bloom vines. Glass cracked above my head. Ivy hung in rotting coils from the rafters. The scent of dust and mold sat thick in the air.

I didn’t even remember walking out of class. We had gone back to life as usual, except it wasn’t. With the council and Venatorum on a cold trail, Xander and I decided that the best thing I could do right now is continue my life, classes and everything as ‘usual’ as I figure myself and gift out.

Except, it wasn’t usual. I wasn’t taking my medicine anymore-which I am absolutely about but Zerina was strong-stronger than I thought. Sharing a headspace with her was… new. I loved her. She was witty, full of wisdom, as if she wasn’t 18 like me, and fun to chat with.

But this was new for both of us, and Zerina can get… overly excited at times, which leads me into situations like this, where she took over, but mot completely or veen intentionally, and I’d lose time and space, waking up in strange places close by.

Xander wasn’t worried. He said it’s good that Zerina trusts me enough to resume control, let alone have it most of the time.

But I for one, was a bit over it.

‘In the old greenhouse? Really Zerina?’

She chuckled in my head. ‘I was going towards the field where Azrien is, but you strong-willed human drive us here.’

I snorted. ‘So it’s my fault? And how many times do I have to tell you that when I’m in class, you cant just drag me away. You and Az have an endless line of communication now that we’re fully mated, plus, we’ll be in the same bed later. You have to learn how to control your emotions.’

‘Don’t lecture me about emotions. I’m not a child.’

“Then stop making me get lost like one!’

She was about to respond with an equally witty response, I’m sure. But I blocked our link before she could- something else I had to adapt to fast for the sake of my sanity.

I examined my body and groaned.

My hands were scraped. My boots muddy. There was a faint, sharp scent of ozone in the air, like something had burned or sparked just before I woke.

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‘Next time I wake up in the middle of nowhere, I’m going back to Matt for that medicine.

Zerina chuffed. “The cheery one would not live long enough to get it down.

my

throat.’

‘Don’t threaten my friends,’ I scolded.

Then tell your friends to stop thinking I need leashing

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Classes blurred after that. Vallin’s lecture on post-war gifted wolves politics barely registered. My notes were a scrawl of half-formed thoughts, some of which I didn’t even remember writing. One word in particular repeated several times along the margins:

Gate.

I hadn’t written that.

At least, I didn’t think I had.

‘Are you the one who keeps writing ‘gate’ everywhere?’

‘Last time I checked, wolves don’t have fingers,’ Zerina responded in a bored tone.

I put my shield up as I rolled my eyes. The gall of this wolf sometimes.

By the time lunch rolled around, I barely had the energy to hold a fork. Dhara watched me from across the table, her brow furrowed. Mona was beside her, arms folded, expression sharp and unblinking.

Matt dropped his tray beside me. “You look like death.”

“Thanks,” I muttered.

“Seriously,” Mona said. “You’re paler than usual. Which is saying something.”

I shook my head. “Just tired.”

Dhara leaned in. “You’ve been off since that aristocrat meeting. You’re sleeping less. You keep zoning out. And today you missed the end of Vallin’s lecture. You just… left.”

I blinked, “What?”

Matt frowned. “Yeah. I tried to catch you but you didn’t hear me.”

“I don’t remember leaving,” I whispered.

I was convinced that Zerina hated Vallin.

‘I do,’ she pitched in. ‘His theories are mostly wrong and he things gifted wolves is a one size fit all lesson.’

‘Nice to know. I had no energy for her today, especially since she was the one making me lose time.

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‘I don’t “make” you do anything.

I scoffed. ‘Sure. Says the high-willed pain in the ass-‘

“Rory? Did you hear me?” Dhara’s voice broke me out of my little inner-self scwabble.

“Sorry, what?”

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