Shattered Bonds A Second Chance Mate (by Yui) novel Chapter 45

The night when the exhibition attack det like it stretched forum

1st by the window of my new room at the Lycan state my room now, App Mantly weappeti my skin from the healing bath.

with the started beveride

The moonlight bathed the room in silver, and I could see the guards pacing the perimeter outside, shadows flicketing along riv gardenwall, reuna, E was quiet, warm, safe. But my heart was anything but will

Francesco hadn’t let my side since the moment he arrived

He’d held me as the campus chaos reveled, his arms fight around me, shielding me from more than just

1. It was at if he needed to confirm i was real, alive, breathing. And once we returned to the estate, he sat beside me through every medical check, every heerst every debrief with hiệ

warnons

Now, he was asleep on the couch across the room, his large frame curled uncomfortably against the cushion, mit in his far short and bonts. His cost had been draped over me earlier, before i slipped out of bed to clear my thoughts.

I looked at him. The Alpha

But here, this, he was just Francesco

Mine

Not Anastasia’s.

I shivered, even though the room was warm.

Not from fear, but from the weight of what I’d learned. What the rogue had said. What I’d felt in my own body–magc

Old magic. Wich–born,

Anastasia’s magic. But passed to me?

My reflection in the window flickered, and for a moment, I saw not myself, but the blue fire dancing in my hands.

Was this truly who I was now?

Asoft rustle made me turn.

Francesco stimed, groaning low as he sat up, running a hand over his lace. His hair was a tousled mess. His shit clung to his chest, and the exhaustion etched into his features pulled at something deep in me

He looked at me then, eyes hary but focused. “You should be in bed.”

I smiled faintly. “So should you.”

He rose and walked over, wrapping the cost tighter around my shoulders. His hand lingered there, warm and solid.

“I couldn’t sleep,” I murmured.

“Neither could. He replied quietly.

There was a long pause.

Then I turn my game back at him before ked, “Did you know Anastasia was a witch!”

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He stiffened.

Just slightly, but enough for me to feel it.

“I suspected,” he said quietly. “But she never confirmed it. And I never

Tilt my head “Why?”

He looked out the window with me, “Because I didn’t want it to change bowl saw her. And because love can make fools of even the strongest of men.”

The silence that followed was heavy. Not awkward, but thoughtful.

“She did love you,” said softly with a small smile forming on my

He turned to me, surprise flickering in his game. “How do you know that?”

She showed me.” I whispered with a shrug. “Or maybe her magic did. Her memories. When used that fire felt her. And her sorrow. She betrayed the rogue leader because she chose you. But it started as a lie.?

Francesco closed his eyes for a long moment.

He sighed “I know,” he finally said. “I didn’t back then. But after she died. I began to wonder. Especially when the rogues didn’t stop.

see….Yes, he must notice.

“Do you hate her?”

The answered without hesitation. “But it was never what I feel for you, Elaine. That was youth. Hope. What I feel for you is something else. Deeper Stronger. I think it always has been–even before admitted it to myself,”

My heart tightened by the way he want to explained even though I know but still.. hearing from him, means a lot.

leaned into his side, and he pulled me gently into his arms.

We stood like that for a while, wrapped in each other, until sleep began to pull at the edge of my mind.

The next morning, I woke in his bed, the spot beside me empty but still warm.

A tray of warm tea and croissants waited on the nightstand, along with a folded note:

Gone to the council meeting. Stay inside the estate. We doubled the guards. I’ll be back before lunch

I smiled at the scrawled signature, then moved to the window. The garden outside looked peaceful. I felt strangely drawn to it, like the first time I come into the Alpha manor, but something feel different since I get this magic things inside me

Later that morning, her confirming with Audrey that fd be safe within the grounds, I ventured outside.

The garden stretched wide and wild, roses blooming in spirals and ivy climbing up marble columns. But at the far end, near the oldest part of the estate, noticed something strange–gate I hadn’t seen before.

It was rusted, covered in vines, and partially hidden behind a willow tree

My fingers brushed over the iron latch

Magic shimmered faintly.

A memory Anastasia’s?-flashed behind my eyes. This gate had been sealed. By her

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1 pressed my palm to the metal

Blue light pulsed,

The wines withered befor the pate creaked open.

Inside was a hidden gaiden–evergrown but beautiful Wild herbs and moonflowers swayed under the morning light.

At the center stood a stone pedestal with a crystal nib resting atop it.

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