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Chapter 69
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The Law The Elder council chamber was colder than Nora remembered. She sat beside Raphael on the raised bench meant for petitioners, her hands folded in her lap, watching three old Elders shuffle papers like they had all the time in the world while her whole future was in a state of jeopardy, was more worse than facing rejection.Elder Thomasin cleared his throat and unrolled a long scroll of law text, his reading glasses sliding down his nose."An Alpha's unborn child, born outside a formal bond," he read slowly, "loses pack standing unless the Alpha publicly acknowledges the child and either bonds formally with the mother, or grants the child direct Alpha lineage recognition through a separate ceremony."Raphael's shoulders were tight beside her, but his voice came out steady when he spoke. "I will recognize the child through lineage recognition.""Serena has declined that option," the Elder said, glancing up from the scroll. "Her formal submission is specific. She wants the bond.
Alpha Raphael's Second Chance Mate Chapter 69
The LetterThe letter was on the desk between them, sealed with the Elder council's stamp, and Nora barely noticed Raphael's face when he opened it. She was still folding a small blanket on the chair, one of Eli's, the one she couldn't bring herself to put away yet.She looked up when the room went too quiet.Raphael read the letter in silence, his eyes moving down the page once, then a second time, and something in his shoulders locked into place that she hadn't seen since the day they'd told him about Eli's DNA results."What is it?" she asked.He didn't answer. He set the letter down on the desk, careful, like it might explode if he moved too fast.She crossed the room and picked it up herself.Serena's name jumped out first. Then the words after it, laid out in formal Elder council language, cold and official. A claim of pregnancy. A claim naming Raphael as the father. Three independent witnesses. An external Alpha authority is already involved.Nora read it twice.She put it back
Alpha Raphael's Second Chance Mate Chapter 68
MomThe arrow wasn't meant for Eli.Nobody would ever know which side fired it, whose hand let it fly, whose target had actually stepped out of the way at the last second. It didn't matter now. All that mattered was the small body in Nora's arms, and the fighting around her had already gone quiet by the time she looked down and understood what had happened.She was on her knees. She didn't remember going down.Eli's face was turned up toward hers, his eyes still open, his little chest rising and falling too fast. His hand lifted, slow and shaky, and his fingers found her cheek. He touched her the way he always did when he wanted her attention, patting once, twice, like he was checking she was still there.His lips moved."Mom."One word. Small and clear, the first real word he had ever said, and he said it to her.As that causes,Nora's whole body froze around that word."Eli." Her voice came out barely above a whisper. "Eli, baby, I'm here."His hand slipped from her cheek.His eye
Alpha Raphael's Second Chance Mate Chapter 67
Greenwood They reached the gates of Greenwood a little after noon.Nora saw them before she even fully processed where they were, and her chest tightened at the sight of the trees, the road, the pack she had once called home. Beside her, Raphael slowed his horse, his eyes already scanning the warriors lined up ahead.For a legal handover, a father collecting his son with proper documents, Kael had brought at least thirty men. They stood in loose formation across the grounds, arms crossed, watching them come."That's not a welcome party," Damon muttered from Raphael's other side."No," Raphael said. "It isn't."Nora barely heard him. Her eyes had already found Lena, standing near the entrance of the main building, and in her arms, wrapped in a blue blanket, was Eli.Her whole body locked up.He saw her first. Small arms shot out toward her, his little fingers opening and closing in the air, that same reach he always gave her when he wanted to be held. A sound came out of him, high a
Alpha Raphael's Second Chance Mate Chapter 66
Nora's eyes went to Eli's door again. Every morning it was the same thing. She would walk past his empty room on her way to breakfast, slow down without meaning to, and stand there for a second too long before making herself keep walking.She never said anything about it.But Raphael noticed. He noticed the way her shoulders dropped a little every time she passed that door. He noticed how she stopped talking about Eli's laugh, his tiny hands, the way he used to grab her hair, like saying his name out loud had gotten too heavy to carry.--Nora was going through files when he walked into her office that morning, a folder in his hand. He set it down on the desk in front of her without a word, and she looked up at him, then down at the folder."What's this?""Open it."She did. Formal Alpha law paperwork, his signature already on it, dated that morning. It took her a second to understand what she was reading."You filed this," she said slowly."This morning. Before I came to see you."Sh
Alpha Raphael's Second Chance Mate Chapter 65
Marcus walked into the study without knocking, and the man behind him had to be carried in.Two Ashveil warriors held him up between them. His head hung down. Blood had dried dark along the side of his face. Nora's stomach dropped the second she saw him. Raphael was already moving, pulling out a chair, while shouting for Daniel down the hallway."He insisted on coming himself," Marcus said. His voice sounded rough, tired. "I told him to stay behind. He wouldn't listen.""You should have made him listen," Raphael said, easing the man into the chair."Try making Elias do anything he doesn't want to do." Marcus rubbed a hand over his face. "He got further than any of us. Three relay points before they caught up to him."Nora bent down a little to look at the injured man's face. He looked young. His jaw was swollen on one side. His shirt was torn at the collar, like someone had grabbed him hard enough to rip it."What did he find?" she asked.Marcus didn't answer right away.That alone to
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NORAI turned to walked out of the pack as I said, “My baby, I'll come back to get you!" That was the only thought I had when those gates closed behind me and the sound of them shutting echoed through the cold morning air and faded into nothing. I did not have a plan. Neither did I have a directi
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NORAThey came for me at first light just like he said they would.I had not slept. I had sat on the edge of that hospital bed through the entire night with my hands folded in my lap and my eyes fixed on the wall in front of me and my mind going over and over everything that had happened until the
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NORAI woke up to the sound of machines beeping softly somewhere close to me and a stillness in the room that felt wrong before I could even fully open my eyes. My head was heavy and my body ached in ways I did not have words for yet and for just a few seconds between sleeping and waking I did not
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NORAThe pack ceremony had been going on for hours and I had been standing at the far edge of it the whole time, invisible the way I always was at these things, holding my heavily pregnant stomach and wishing with everything in me that I could just disappear back to my room and lie down and pretend
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