All Chapters of The Unchosen Mate: Chapter 191 - Chapter 200

LoThe next several days passed with more joy and ease and contentment than I had felt in awhile. It felt so at home in the archives, spending time with my two best friends. It was as though everything in our lives had finally begun to settle. Both Perrin and Ethan continued to help me during breaks from training, which, not that we were a month out from the Sacred Call, had become even more grueling and intense. I caught both of them more than once dozing with their heads on leather bound volumes, prodding them gently awake only when the danger of their drool would have ruined the books.The medical textbook hadn’t turned up as much help as I had hoped. There was no section on poison origins, and the section on anticodes were limited to plant poisonings. I had a hard time believing Ethan had been slashed to death by a venomo

Lo“Can she see me?”“Are you hurt?” Lorrie stared protectively at me from behind the desk. I had a feeling that Jaz may have slipped her instructions as to how to deal with me. Or any of Perrin’s friends, for that matter.“No, but--”“Then probably not.”“Please,” I urged. “This isn’t about Perrin.”Lorrie’s eyebrow rose suspiciously, as if that’s exactly what she thought this was about. “Honest,” I said. “Jaz was helping me with some research questions in the pack archive and I know she’d want me to follow up with her.”

EthanI tried very hard to keep my breathing normal.Justin’s voice was practically a whisper at this point, pained and hollow and heartbreakingly filled with regret.“It happened so fast. Like I blacked out. But it couldn’t have taken more than a minute or two…” he sniffed, wiping his nose, trying to restrain the tears that threatened to escape. The pain that went through my own chest, seeing my mate so torn--it brought tears to my own eyes. I would have given anything to take away his regret and pain but I knew that this was a burden that fell far from my reach. “My father saw the whole thing, and didn’t even stop it.”“What?” I fell back in my own chair, for the first time my ha

JazI approached Cynthia’s desk slowly, as if dragging out this moment.“I need to speak with the Luna, please.”Cynthia didn’t even bother looking at me, fingernails continuing to tap away at her keyboard. “She’s busy until 4:00.”“This can’t wait.”The tapping paused, and she peered around the screen at me.“Please,” I pleaded. “It really can’t.”With a measuring gaze she rose, wary of me. Did she know that I was part of Deidre’s inner circle now? She excused herself into the Luna’s office, then reappear

Alpha Jason’s Office Perrin I didn’t think there’d be enough time in the world to process what my father had shared over the last half hour. Some of it we knew, some of it made other things suddenly snap into place, and the rest? Well. It was altogether unsettling. Mistra sat whitefaced in the corner of the office, her face stony, refusing to look at Ethan. My step-mother maintained a quiet composure at her usual place on the sofa while my father spoke. Jaz for some reason was here, looming silently in the back of the office by the door. I could tell from her body language that she was uncomfortable; an unusual emotion for her to showcase so openly. And Mark stood behind my father as he delivered the true story behind Ethan’s treatment. Small components of his story seemed to fit like puzzle pieces into the last few months, s