The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 242

Chapter 242 – Cora’s Determination

Ella

As per usual the news about my latest hypnosis session is all over the palace by the time Sinclair and I surface from our rooms. Thankfully not the details about my teenaged despair, rather the premonition of our potential victory.

I’ve realized how important it is to give people hope in this conflict ever since my early days visiting the refugees, but it really is remarkable the difference it can make in morale. In fact, the increase in public and political optimism is palpable as we attend the days’ scheduled summit events, the Alphas have even agreed to fly to the coast to witness the continental front of the refugee crisis first hand.

Unfortunately, there’s at least one person who isn’t thrilled by these revelations: my sister. I’m dressing for dinner when Cora ambles into my dressing room, her feet dragging with exhaustion. She slumps onto the chaise as I try on gowns, watching me with begrudging amusement.

“You know, just once I’d like to come home after a long day of surgeries and not discover that my little sister has accomplished some impossible feat yet again. What’s next, Ella? Are you going to grow a tail?”

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“I think you’ll find I’ve already done that.” I joke as my wolf wags her tail in my mind’s eye, eager to show off the beautiful rose-gold appendage.

“Har har,” Cora quips, rubbing her sore neck. “Come on then, tell me all about it.”

Sighing, I slip out of the red dress I was attempting to stretch over my belly and exchange it for a green number that will match Sinclair’s eyes. I’m not particularly eager to linger on this particular subject, but if she’s going to hear the story from anyone, it ought to be me.

delay the inevitable. It’s a relief when the tale is finally complete. “So it turns out those priests weren’t all bad,”

I’ve been punched in the gut. I guiltily search my sister’s lovely face, hating the pain in her

a whisper. “I never wanted to

She asks, a bitter note in her melodic voice. “You only got that low because you were bearing the brunt

hip. “And it wouldn’t have been true peace, because I’d known I would be leaving so much pain behind for the people I cared about most. I would have

then when you were in the thick of it, but I never knew you got depressed at

stroking her soft skin with the pad of my thumb. “I think you’re rewriting history a bit there… you’re the one who was always cautioning me not to bottle things

explains with obvious frustration. “It took a lot of therapy for me to reach that point – when we were children I

“I never wanted you to feel that way, and I hope you know that I was the weak one for avoiding

felt safe enough to come out of it.” An unidentified emotion flashes across her

waggling my brows. “I don’t suppose you’re referring to a certain wolf with a sly smile and

glowers at me, “You know smug really isn’t a good color

leaning my shoulder against hers.

being intentionally contrary or if her emotions are simply so tangled and confused that she doesn’t

in exasperations. “Scowl at me all you like, I’d have to be blind not to notice. The reason you can’t shake him is because you don’t really want to, and you can’t lie to a wolf about

lashes out, surging up from the chaise. “So I find him attractive – maybe I even care about his well being. That doesn’t mean I want to be in a relationship. It doesn’t give

comes to love, and it breaks my heart to see brilliant figures like Cora and Isabel so skittish of being hurt. “How do you know you don’t want a relationship when you’ve never been in one – never

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