NovelEnglishChapter 286
Liam?
Liam was sick? With what? He was hooked up to all kinds of machines and tubes, and Stella was crying...
Whatever it was had to be serious.
But most of all, why the hell was Stella, of all people, visiting Liam in the hospital?
None of it made sense. As far as | knew, Liam and Stella barely knew each other in passing; and Goddess knew |
had distanced myself from him after Ella’s death because | couldn't bear to look into the face of her best friend
now that she was gone.
My hand itched to reach out and open the door, but I couldn't. | felt frozen to my spot, and all | could do was
watch as Liam-not only Ella’s friend, but the man who had begun to be mine-seemed to wither away in a
hospital bed while a woman he shouldn't have known held his hand and cried into his chest like they'd known
each other for years.
And for sreason, my wolf snarled. Suddenly, the mate bond flared in my chest, so intense this tthat it
burned like a wildfire. Stella, as if sensing it too, snapped her head up and looked in my direction. | managed to
step out of sight before she could know | was there.
No. Stella wasn’t my mate. She couldn't be. My mate was dead.
And yet, seeing her with Liam made something ugly twist in my chest-a feeling I'd felt too many times before
with Ella. Before, it made sense; Ella was my mate and | thought she was having an affair with Liam.
But Stella wasn’t mine. She was just the nanny who only happened to bear a passing resemblance to my dead
wife.
Goddess, | really was going insane. It was a good thing my appointment with Dr. Evelyn was that afternoon.
“Alpha Alexander.” Dr. Evelyn smiled as | entered her office a few hours later. “Please, have a seat. What seems
to be the problem? My receptionist said you sounded somewhat distressed when you called to make the
appointment the other day.”
“I've been experiencing some... unusual symptoms,” | said as | took a seat on the exam table. “Ever since my
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtmate died.” Evelyn tilted her head, and | cleared my throat and explained, “I've been feeling... phantom
sensations from the mate bond.”
Her eyebrows rose. “Phantom sensations?”
“Yes. Sometimes, it feels like the bond is still there.”
Dr. Evelyn considered this for a moment with a furrowed brow. “Well, it’s not uncommon for surviving mates to
experience sresidual feelings in the first few weeks after their partner dies. But those sensations should
fade relatively quickly.” She paused. “How long has it been?”
“Over a month.”
Dr. Evelyn frowned. She stood and retrieved a stethoscope from her desk drawer. “Letexamine you.
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Over the next several minutes, Dr. Evelyn checked my vitals-pulse, lungs, heart, blood pressure. She even drew
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Dr. Evelyn looked perturbed by my question. “No. When a mate dies, the bond dies with them. Perhaps in your
grief, you're simply imagining that it’s still there. Give it time. It will fade.”
The doctor seemed adamant that | was just imagining things, and | wanted to believe her. It would be the most
simple explanation.
But as | headed hthat day, | couldn't shake the feeling that as long as Stella was still around, | would never
stop sensing that phantom mate bond.
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