All Chapters of Alpha Mordecai: Love & Obsession: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Willow’s POVFive days.Mordecai had not come to the apothecary garden in five days.I found myself looking toward the gate whenever I heard footsteps. That realization annoyed me immediately.When I found plants I didn’t recognize, I would automatically look around, expecting a flat voice to identify them.It was strange how quickly I had gotten used to him appearing without making a sound. The short answers and all the questions he never answered. The way he would crouch beside a plant and point out something I had been staring at for twenty minutes without seeing.And now there was none of that.The garden felt strangely empty because of it.Even the feeling of being watched had stopped. I had gotten so used to it that its absence felt strange, like a sound that had always been in the background had suddenly stopped.I had not realized how much I had been relying on his short visits until they stopped.My work in the herb garden had slowed down to nothing because without him there

Willow’s POVI stayed perfectly still.The room was dark. The only lighting came from the moonlight coming through the windows.I sat up slowly, squinting through the darkness, but nothing moved.There was no shadow. No sound.My heart hammered against my ribs as I stared into the darkness.Someone had been here.I was sure of it.I waited for a full minute, but still there was nothing.I reached over and turned on the small bedside lamp.The room was empty.I sat there for a moment, looking at every corner. The door was closed. The window was shut. Nobody was there.I got up anyway.I walked around the room slowly, checking every corner, near the door, beside the window.Frustration tightened in my chest. I knew I had felt something.Then I paused.Even though there was no one, there was something in the air.A scent.I stopped walking. It was familiar.My mind processed it immediately, trying to place it.It was faint. Something dark and warm.I stood in the middle of the room and b

Willow’s POVEventually, exhaustion won.I didn’t remember falling asleep. One moment I was staring at the ceiling, and the next everything was changing.The dream didn’t make sense.I was walking through the apothecary garden. The air was warm, and the scent of herbs surrounded me. Then cedar and dark amber drifted through the air.I paused. I turned.Someone was standing behind me.My pulse jumped.The dream shifted. One second I was in the garden, and the next I was standing somewhere dark with pale blue eyes looking at me. A large hand resting against the wall beside my head. That scent wrapped around me, and my breath caught.Then I woke up.My eyes flew open.For a second I couldn’t breathe properly. My chest rose and fell rapidly. Heat lingered under my skin. My heart was racing.The room was dark and empty.It took several seconds before I understood why I was so unsettled.The dream.Heat rushed to my face immediately.“No.”The word escaped before I could stop it.I covered

Willow’s POVI kept telling myself I had imagined it.But the picture of Mordecai’s face kept flashing through my mind. That brief change in his expression.Had he actually been worried about me?The thought refused to leave.It was ridiculous.Alpha Mordecai Black worried about me?No.It made no sense. I turned it over and over and it still made no sense.It was affecting other things too.Diana wouldn’t stop taunting me. She hadn’t said anything outright, but she kept giving me looks. The kind of look that said she knew something and was enjoying knowing it.Every time I caught her doing it, I would ask what she was smiling about, and she would simply smile and look away. It was almost as aggravating as Mordecai’s silence.The worst part was that she never actually said anything directly. Instead, she made little comments and hints that sounded innocent until I thought about them for a moment.Vincent had taken a different approach entirely.He still came to the training grounds. H

Willow’s POVI woke up determined to forget the kiss.But I lasted less than thirty seconds.Then the memory was back, replaying itself in my head clearly. The way he had stepped closer. The way his hand had settled against my jaw. His warmth and his scent.It kept replaying over and over until I wanted to scream.I groaned and pressed my face into the pillow.The most infuriating part was that it hadn’t actually answered anything. He had kissed me and then stood there in complete silence while I stared at him like an idiot, and then the healer had come back in to check on me and Mordecai had simply walked out.No explanation.No words at all.He had kissed me and then acted like nothing happened.I sat up, which was a mistake because my shoulder injury reminded me immediately that it existed.I dressed carefully, avoided using the injured arm, and left my room in search of fresh air and a way to stop thinking about Mordecai’s mouth.It proved to be impossible.*The first thing I not