Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Chapter 231 You Need to Know These Things

The morning seemed to arrive too soon for Ann’s liking.

She had been awake for hours already before the beautiful canvas of colors that indicated the sun was about to peek over the horizon began to appear, and had busied herself with working through the various piles of paperwork that Eva had sent her over whilst she was incapacitated with her heat, until she ran out of work that she had needed to catch up on.

She could feel her stomach tie itself in knots as she paced backward and forwards nervously, going over the looming trial for Linus in her mind and everything that might go wrong, the fact that she would have to say goodbye to Adam in a few short hours… it was all too much.

Really, she supposed that she should be curled up in bed, enjoying his scent and the last physical contact with him before he left for goddess knew how long, but a small part of her refused to let her do that. That little voice that whispered she was tempting fate if she savored the last moments, that it might be her fault if he never came back.

‘That’s not going to happen, Ann. Will you calm the f**k down and go back to bed? You’ve been at this for hours and your thoughts are too noisy to allow me to sleep peacefully.1 Maeve grumbled moodily.

“Sorry,” Ann mumbled miserably in response as Maeve snorted at her disdainfully.

‘No you aren’t, don’t lie to me. If you were sorry you would do as you were told and climb back in next to our mate so I can enjoy the last few minutes of peace until I become fully responsible for keeping you in check.’

‘Maeve… I just can’t… there’s too much in my head for me to settle to sleep again.’

settle for you sitting at this point. Do you have any idea what it’s like for me? It’s like being in a car with someone driving in circles whilst

purred teasingly, in a voice that would usually

as she settled back into the

Maeve sighed wistfully as she settled herself back down and exhaled

at the picture on the wall opposite the bed and reached for her phone. She scrolled aimlessly fora little while before Adam’s arm landed suddenly across her belly as he attempted to pull her closer to

at him and smiled at his scowling, sleeping face. Right now, she was struggling with the fact that she might not be able to see him for a few days, possibly even weeks, or even longer if things didn’t go to plan with

worked hard yesterday contacting their allies and various packs along the route they would travel to the village and

them at designated rendezvous points, so she wasn’t worried too much about his safety, but there was always the possibility of

being in the thick of any fight, she knew that all of her fears were unwarranted. He was a more than capable fighter, and his wolf Baldur was an absolutely fearless and uncompromising savage when it came to anything like this but there was no reasoning with her overactive

tense,” Adam mumbled, his

heart in knots as she ran her hand through

of my life is leaving me in a few hours.” She murmured, her

her sleepily and pulled at

me without feeling like it was risking you, or the potential pups, then I would.” He murmured