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All Chapters of The Broken Fate of a Fated Mate: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Chapter 31 : Belonging

*Vanessa*“I’m so glad you’re back,” Seth says, trying to navigate his arms around my frame. He’s trying hard not to aggravate any of my injuries, and he’s so awkwardly sweet that I laugh and pull him in for a proper hug. It’s a huge step for me, and the first time I’m hugging someone who isn’t Amara or Shawn, but Seth doesn’t protest, instead hugging me back. “I volunteered to go looking for you, but Shawn insisted I wait here. Dahlia went though,” he explains, pulling back. “Thank you for the thought,” I say, and he shakes his head. “We would’ve done it for anyone else too. You’re family.”“Not to push or anything, but do you think you could tell us about what happened in detail? Aaron says you fought like hell,” another younger warrior whose name I don’t even know chimes in. The group around me is easily a third of the total warrior group, with the rest of the remaining number still patrolling the compound. But the minute I left the med bay, I
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Chapter 32 : Questions

*Vanessa*“I can’t believe you actually took in the Helbane defectors,” I say, running my hand across Shawn’s forearm. Lying cocooned against his body, I feel so at peace. We slipped away from the party again, wanting to catch up on everything that happened over the last few days, but we were so exhausted that we ended up just falling asleep wrapped up in each other. The mutual confession we shared seems to have altered something between us. We’re closer than we were before, without hesitation on my end. And Shawn hasn’t made a secret of how grateful he is for the opportunity to love me out loud. “I was never going to exile or execute the entire pack.” He catches my hand in his and twines his fingers with mine playfully. “It wouldn’t be fair. I could tell that not everyone was following Trent willingly, or even necessarily agreed with his politics.”I pause, thinking back to the conversations I had with Trent and Ramona. I hadn’t really gone into much detail about
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Chapter 33 : Past Bonds

*Vanessa*It’s the first pack meeting I’m attending since I’ve been in Ashborne. Before this, I’d largely just attended the council meetings where all of the sector heads reported. But now, almost every member of Ashborne has congregated together in the square. Most of them are seated in front of the stone platform used as a rudimentary podium, others stand near the sidelines or beneath the shade of the buildings. On the platform itself is Shawn, his face somber and pensive. Several Elders have taken their position opposite him, and I assume that they’re the ones who had the most dissent about my position in the pack. I’m seated between Aaron and Amara, and there’s something comforting about having them on either side of me.Amara keeps my hand nestled in between both of hers and while Aaron says nothing, he shares a similar look of concentration as Shawn. I use these reminders to make sure I remember that I am not their enemy. Even if some members of Ashborne hav
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Chapter 34 : The Decision

*Vanessa*“No.” I look at Shawn, blinking in surprise at his sudden outburst. His mouth is pressed in a tight line, his eyes hard.“I understand your concern, young man, but this isn’t exactly a debatable topic,” Elder Luka says, neither offended by his brash response nor intimidated enough to refrain from calling him outside of his title. “Unless you’re not serious about making Vanessa your mate.”From anyone else, their words might sound belittling. But something tells me that Elder Luka is not on the same wavelength as the other Elders in the pack who would never dare talk to him like that. I’d always thought there was something almost mystical about them, something ancient. Even Shawn himself noticed when we spoke about them the last time. He joked about his father being scared of them too. He doesn’t look scared now though, having immediately dismissed their suggestion as swiftly as he did. And knowing what I do about quests to the temple, I can understand why
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Chapter 35 : One Day

*Vanessa*“You stole your father’s battle plans and used them as a treasure map?” I ask incredulously, and Shawn shrugs. “We needed props to make it believable,” he says, as though that explained everything.“I’m surprised your dad didn’t just kill you right away,” I laugh. The thought of little Shawn, Amara, Aaron, and Mylene destroying one of the most important battle strategies the pack had ever used because they needed “props” for their game of treasure hunting was enough to make me cry with laughter. Even more so, when I learn that the “treasure” in question was a couple of Amara’s sparkly pins.“All of that for hair accessories,” I remark, shaking my head.“Look, they sparkled. At seven, that pretty much looked like treasure to us,” Shawn replies, and the amount of genuine defensiveness in his voice only makes me laugh even harder.“It was plastic!”“Well, yes, we know that now.” He scratches the back of his neck. “You were ad
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Chapter 36 : The Journey

*Vanessa*It’s the dawn beginning to seep into the apartment that eventually wakes me. Shawn is still asleep, one arm slung protectively over me. I slip out from under the warmth of his body as carefully as I can, determined not to wake him. I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to maintain my resolve if he wakes up and tries one last time to convince me to stay. As I get dressed silently, I watch him. He’s beautiful, with his dark hair falling over his forehead in waves, his thick black lashes that brush his cheeks, and the tattooed contrast of the dark ink against his tanned skin. I watch his body rise and fall gently with his breaths as he sleeps in my sheets. I definitely would struggle to resist his pleas for me to stay if he had to get up now. But I don’t want him to wake up completely alone. I find a notepad and pen and scribble out a message for him, then tear out the page, fold it, and leave it on my pillow beside him. I look at him one last tim
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Chapter 37 : Isla's Grove

*Vanessa*Panic courses through me, and my breathing is erratic as I try to calm myself down. My sling bag has thankfully remained strapped to my torso, but I’m very careful not to move in any way that will allow it to fall off. The journey here so far has already depleted so much of my energy that the strain of my body weight immediately burns my muscles.I close my eyes against the pain in my arms, against the ache of my chest, and the desperate pounding of my heart. I need to focus, even though every fiber of my being wants to freak out at the thought of falling. There’s enough of my torso above the solid ground for me to drag myself up. I take a deep breath, then use my elbows to get a better grip. My toes go against the wall of rock, looking for any kind of indentation I can use as a foothold. I go steady, using the combination of elbows and feet to drag my body up against the jagged cliff-like drop. Sweat beads my brow but eventually, with scrape
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Chapter 38 : The Goddess

*Vanessa*I’m in utter disbelief even as my eyes take her in. She looks like the marble carving come to life. Her skin is warm and her hair is silver and floor-length, brushing against her ankles. Her eyes are silver too, without pupils, darkly lined and accented sidelong with markings I can’t recognize. She reminds me of Elder Luka in her youthful agelessness, features graceful and perfect. But she transcends even the Elder’s ethereal nature. The image of her flickers like a mirage transposed over the marble statue. The sight is both frightening and beyond our realm of beauty. But it’s the benevolent look on her face that causes a tear to roll down my cheek, the softness in her powerful voice that causes indescribable emotion to well up inside me. “Why do you weep, Vanessa?” she asks again, sounding both authoritative and comforting. I wipe at my cheek, scrambling until I’m on my knees so I can bow before her. “There’s no need for that, child,”
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Chapter 39 : Weightless

*Vanessa*It’s not Ashborne I see first when I pass the final border. It’s Shawn.He’s waiting for me as far away from the territory as he can while still being close enough to guard it. His eyes are searching the horizon, waiting for me. Like he’s always been waiting for me. Something in me strains toward him, drawing me forward despite my exhaustion and the mental strain of the last few days. I can tell when he sees me because I can literally see his body relax for a split second before he breaks out into a run. Despite the physical and mental exhaustion of the past few days, I find myself running to meet him. We find each other halfway, and I throw myself into his arms so hard that he has to take a step back to steady us. But then his arms are around me immediately, squeezing so tightly that it feels as if his embrace is the only reality of the world I know. His scent, the rapid beating of his heart, his hand wrapped in my hair and the half-pained l
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Chapter 40 : United

*Shawn*When I woke up alone after our night together, it felt like my world shattered. I ran out immediately to try and find Vanessa, but Amara let me know that she was already gone. I understood why she did it, in retrospect. If she felt even half as lost as I did in the days she was gone, I could imagine that enough begging from me might’ve changed her mind. But Vanessa needed to do this. As much as I hated to admit it, as much as the knowledge that she was outside of my protection killed me, I knew that she needed to realize the extent of her own strength if she was ever going to be Luna. She had the intelligence, the grit and the heart of a leader. But she lacked confidence. She allowed her past to stall her progress for so long that it still held a vice around her potential.But the Vanessa that I saw coming over that horizon was changed. I could tell, even just from one look at her. It filled me with a pride that I couldn’t truly express, not wi
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