Alpha's Abused Mate.

Tensions.

"Wary, fear, desperation, jealously, panic, lies, hidden truths... Everything is allowed in love."

~about one hour later, palace~

Cora’s pov

I am walking to our room and I couldn’t have been more excited about seeing Ivan!

I need to see him more than ever, the meeting with Noah was too frustrating yet overwhelming and I feel awful, really!

It’s like I have a massive weight on my shoulders and I can’t relax, I guess my past is still hunting me somehow and this is why I need to know everything about Miles!

At least Noah agreed to help and he didn’t cause me any problem something that I find weird but I have to be positive, at least! This is what I wanted and now that he agreed I have to be grateful!

But…

Something feels wrong! I don’t know what but it feels way too wrong like…

Something bad is going to happen and I am scared!

Okay Cora! Stop thinking of it now, you are going to see Ivan again, you will get in his arms, you will spend all the rest of the day with him!

I reach outside our room’s door and stop to fix myself.

I cried a bit while I was driving to come back to the palace and I need to be sure that I will be perfect so Ivan won’t have to worry. I sigh heavily to get rid of my nervousness and then fix my dress and next I smile ready to knock the door.

Here we…

“Baby!” he yells from the end of the corridor and I snap my head to his direction.

“There you are!” I exclaim excited and run to him without being able to hide my relief.

The closer I get to him the more enthusiastic I become, it feels like I have a century to see him, no offence but being with Noah can’t be pleasing and the time doesn’t run at all!

He is smiling more than the usual, his eyes reveal that he had been having a hard time and I understand him completely! He was thinking of me, he was waiting for a phone call even from me even from my uncles, he was worried of Noah doing something stupid, he didn’t want me to get sad or hurt and he had to be here, I went on my own.

In his position I would have felt the same way or maybe even worse!

“I missed you!” I say close to his ear once we reach each other and I fall in his arms.

“You tell me?!” he whispers and buries his face in my neck to kiss me some times in hurry.

I giggle tightening my hold around his waist and he purrs sighing. This feels home, this is what I was talking about!

He is the one I always wanted!

“Are you alright? How do you feel rose?” he asks me pulling back and I see his eyes full of tears.

Huh? Already?

“Baby why are you crying?” I ask breathless capping his face in my hands.

My heart aches in pain, I think I forget how to breathe and his ‘pain’ becomes mine.

“I am glad you are alright and you came back to me!” he whispers and I smile amused yet touched.

If I don’t have the sweetest man then what?

“And I am glad I am here with you and I have you, come! I have a tell you what happened!” I say and he nods immediately.

We turn and walk to our room in hurry and once we reach at the door Ivan pulls his key from his pockets to unlock it but…

“Huh?”

“I forgot to lock the door?!” he murmurs in annoyance and I roll my eyes smiling.

“Someone was busy thinking of something else…” I say teasingly and he runs his hand through his hair in frustration.

He is disappointed with himself, I can see it in his eyes, I know this expression of his! After all these years I know everything about him!

“Baby calm down! It’s fine, don’t feel bad! You could have been in hurry!” I say while opening the door and getting in with him behind me.

“I am sorry love! Really, I don’t how I did it, I have lost my mind…” he says nervously and closes the door.

I walk and sit on our bed and tap it for him to join me.

He is not in a very good mood, in fact he is in the worst mood I have seen him all these days and I am worried.

He walks slowly to the bed and sits next to me with his head lowered from embarrassment yet anxiousness and I move a bit closer to him and take his one hand in both of my hands.

“I want you to relax and forget about it! I know it was difficult for you to be here all these years while I was missing in order to meet Noah. Don’t be so hard with yourself baby! Why are you in so much tension?” I ask softly and he turns and looks at me concerned.

“I don’t know… I have a weird feeling and this whole thing with Miles is troubling me… I can’t explain it completely.” He says and I smile at him warmly.

“I understand baby… I think we are in too much tension, this is why!” I murmur thoughtfully and he nods after he thinks about it for a while.

“Maybe you are right, so… How did the meeting go?” he asks me more relaxed than I had thought and I shake my head pleased.

“I guess it went pretty good, he agreed to help me! I will wait for him to go and take the file… I don’t what else to suppose but to be honest I think he had no idea and he wasn’t lying, he knew nothing!” I say and he signs in understanding.

“And let me imagine that he also began all these well known things about you two…” he murmurs next in annoyance and I bite my lower lip.

“Mmm… Yeah but he didn’t pressure me, he did nothing inappropriate or too intense. He showed respect and… I told him that I want only you!” I say with nozzle in the end and place a long kiss on his cheek making him chuckle.

“You did!? You are crazy, do you know that?” he whispers and hugs me catching me off guard (not that I am complaining).

“For you…” I say ‘innocently’ and he laughs.

“Do you feel better now?” I ask making myself more comfortable in his arms and he nods immediately in assurance.

“And you?”

“I am calmer now. I am quite impressed from his reaction and cooperation but I still have my doubts…” I reply and he nods agreeing with me.

“Oh… Where have you been?” I ask next while narrowing my eyes teasingly and he laughs.

“I was at the hospital with Natalie and Mischa with your aunt and I came to wait for you because I wanted to see you immediately once you would come!” he explains and I kiss his cheek giggling wickedly.

My, my… I am the luckiest woman there is!

“Mm… I want to take a bath to relax my body’s muscles a bit and then we can do whatever you want!” I whisper and lean on his neck to kiss him some more times and he groans.

“Woman you are trying to kill me!” he says through his teeth and I pull back and out of his hold with a devilish smirk.

“Hey, this is not funny rose! You are playing with me!” he yells disappointed and I raise my eyebrows challengingly.

“Tonight baby… Be patient and I am going to make it up to you…” I state and he smiles wickedly while I turn and walk to the bathroom.

“Do you want something to drink? I think they filled our bar!” he says standing up heading to the mini bar we have in our room before I get in and I turn thoughtfully.

Yeah, he has a point! Good idea!

“Um… What are you going to have?” I ask shortly.

“Some vodka… The bottle is already open and I ate!”

“Oh, I haven’t eaten and I don’t want alcohol… One frozen soda baby!” I say and he nod closing his eye to me with meaning.

“Thank you baby, I will be right back!”

~some time later, palace~

Noah’s pov

I get in my room and sigh grateful that Camilla in not here.

At least I will have some peace for a while because I think my head in going to explode from thinking.

I still can’t believe what happened, why Cora wanted to see me…

A note about Miles’ death and I have no idea who is behind this and what does he mean!

And why Cora? How does he know about Cora?

Her identity is nowhere to be found, I mean… No one knows that the current Princess of the lycanthropes is my dead son’s mother and that we are mates!

“Were!” Natan growls and I fall on the bed closing my eyes tired.

“I can’t even reply to you!” I say in frustration and he takes one step forward in my mind.

He is serious but worried yet scared at the same time. I guess that the whole incident with Miles has affected him and I understand him more than ever.

“We have to go back to the pack and take the file! Cora has every right to know the sooner! We can’t let whoever is hiding behind the note like this!” he states after some seconds in silence and I nod quickly.

“We will… Tomorrow morning! We can’t trust anyone else with this. No one has to know where the file is and trust him to bring him to us!” I reply and he groans in approval.

“Are you alright?” I ask him next and he sighs heavily.

“I don’t know but… Well done for today, you did nothing too stupid. I am glad you respected her and you want to help her the most you can!”

“I love her and it hurts like hell and I am worried about the moment she is going to read the file… She…” I say nervously ready to cry again (I haven’t stopped crying completely all these hours) but he growls and I stop.

“Noah, she has to know! He was her son, she deserves to take some answers even now and you know that there is no way she is going to get back to you!”

“Us!” I correct him but he just shows me his teeth and disappears without telling me a thing.

Great!

I am alone for good and I am getting crazy!

What am I going to do?

Once she reads the file she is going to hate me forever, I will never be able to win her heart again! And… I know that everything she told me some time ago was true!

If I wasn’t drunk, if Miles was with her, if I had left more fighter at the pack that night, if I was treating her right nothing would have happened!

What a monster I am?

I am the reason my son died and I lost Cora, I killed her so many times!

What am I going to do? How am I going to make her forgive me and come back to me?

How?

No! I won’t stop fighting for her, I will do the right thing, I am going to go and take the file tomorrow morning and no matter how she reacts once she reads everything in it I won’t stop trying for her…

This whole thing with our son’s death is a sign, a new chance that came out of nowhere for me!

For us!

~some hours later, late at afternoon, palace’s hospital~

Cora’s pov

“Forget about me now…And what did the doctor tell?” I ask Natalie that seems quite better than she was yesterday when I saw her for the last time.

She is smiling, she doesn’t look tired or worried, her face’s features have relaxed very mush and her eyes are shining.

“That tomorrow morning I am free to leave. We are perfectly fine but they wanted to keep me here to make sure that I won’t have any problem again!” she says relieved and I smile squeezing her hand.

It is about half an hour now that I came to see her with Ivan and right now he is sitting outside with Mischa and Jose. Rosa was tired and went to take a hot bath and the two of us stayed alone because we had a lot to talk about.

I told her about the note, my visit at my mother’s grave with my father, the fight, my discussion with Caleb, Leo and Jose and my meeting with Noah. She already knew the basics because of Jose and Rosa and now that she is calmer we managed to talk about all these.

And I tried lots of times to ask her about her and her baby but she denied to tell me a thing before I tell her everything and as you understand this happened just some seconds ago!

“I am very happy for you baby! You, Mischa and your son deserve the best!” I say and kiss her forehead.

“I know Cora and so do you and Ivan! Today he was extremely worried but I am glad you two are so well together! See? We were all right, you are the best couple there is!” she whispers teasingly in the end and I chuckle.

She is right! They tried lots of times to help us get closer all these years but we never accepted it!

“I guess we had to wait for the best moment!” I reply and she nods.

“And also I am surprised from Noah’s behavior! He created no problem, fantastic… Maybe he is really sorry and now that you mentioned Miles he… Accepted that you two can’t be together again!” she continues and I shake my head in confusion

“I have no idea Nat! Really… I don’t trust him that much even if I am sure he was suffering back at the restaurant!” I murmur with concern.

“It is logical, you…”

“Cora!” Mischa screams from outside and both of us jump up worried.

What the f**k!?

“s**t!”

“Ivan!” I exclaim and rush to the door with Natalie standing up in hurry.

“Ivan?!” Jose screams the moment I open the door to find him laying unconscious on the floor with Mischa and Jose pale yet panicked above him.

My heart stops, my legs feel extremely heavy, I lose my breath and my stomach tightens immediately while Cynthia is howling in pain.

“What happened to him?” I scream breathless in agony and kneel next to him taking his head in my hands.

He is so pale, I bearably listen to his heartbeat and he is soaked from sweat.

He was perfectly fine some minutes ago what happened now?

“I have no idea Cora! He said he wasn’t feeling so well, that he was hot and then he passed out!” Mischa yells in hurry while trembling and Natalie joins my side gasping for air.

He is getting cold now, he…

His heart…

NO!

“DOCTOR!”

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Hello dear friends!

I am back and in less than a week after the last update with the 18th chapter and I am sorry for the shorter chapter this time but I am updating almost every day or when I am not I am trying to correct some chapters and I have a terrible, strong headache! I did my best to write the one I had to but not with so many maybe tiring details! Anyway!

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