Shattered Bonds A Second Chance Mate (by Yui) novel Chapter 6

Chapter 6

A simple drawing…

That’s all it was supposed to be.

Just a drawing. I didn’t think anyone would notice. I didn’t want them to. It wasn’t

Wasn’t meant for anyone else–it was just something I had to let out. A feeling

I couldn’t explain in words, so I put it on paper instead.

Two wolves—one etched with wings of light, the other crouched low with eyes full of sorrow, hollow and bleeding pain.

The moment I finished it, I knew what it meant. I didn’t need to write a message or sign my name. The drawing itself was the message.

A message to someone I never met. Someone who had suffered in silence much longer than I ever could. Someone I thought would never see it, and if he did, would never care.

But I was wrong.

That morning, when someone knocked on my dorm door, I thought it was just one of the girls from the floor or the dorm manager. But when I opened it,

I froze.

Beta Alfonso stood there.

And beside him–Louis, looking just as confused as I was.

Three pack warriors flanked the hallway behind them, standing tall and silent like statues, making it clear that this wasn’t a casual visit.

“Beta Alfonso,” I blinked and nod my head in acknowledgment. “It’s… it’s an honor, please come in.”

My voice cracked a little from nerves as I stepped back to let them inside. My heart beat so fast I could feel it in my throat.

Why was the Beta of the pack here?

Did I do something wrong?

I didn’t even have time to process how strange this was. It was barely nine in the morning, and I had a class in twenty minutes. Not that I’d be going now.

Louis gave me an awkward shrug as he walked in behind the Beta/“I swear I didn’t know we were coming to see you,” he said under his breath, giving me a tiny smile of reassurance.

“I–I don’t understand,” I finally said once they were seated. “Is something wrong?”

Beta Alfonso smiled kindly, but there was something serious in his expression too–like he was holding something fragile in his hands and trying not to

break it.

“No, Ellaine, Nothing is wrong,” he said. “Quite the opposite, actually.”

I blinked again. “I don’t follow…”

“The drawing,” he said.

That’s when it clicked.

Oh. My. God!

My chest tightened as my eyes dropped to the floor.

“You saw it…” I whispered.

He nodded. “I did. But more importantly–he did.”

I swallowed hard. “He.. Such as.. Alpha Francesco?”

“The memorial,” he continued: “We check it often to make sure it stays clean. You’re not the first to leave flowers or a token. But that drawing, it stopped

us in our tracks. We thought it was beautiful. Painful. Honest. But we assumed it was just from an anonymous visitor.”

He paused, his gaze steady on me.

“But last night… for the first time in over three years… the Alpha spoke.”

My eyes widened in disbelief.

“I’ll let him know you meant it as a gesture of understanding, not intrusion,” the Beta added. “But I wanted to thank you personally. And to tell you… that you’re seen.”

Such a simple word. But for someone like me–someone who’d been invisible for most of her life–it meant the world.

He stood, offering me a kind smile before heading toward the door.

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