Chapter 24: Deserve
Chapter 24
( Cameron POV)
Lenora gives me space.
Not in a dramatic, storm-out-of-the-room kind of way. But in that subtle, careful way she does when she knows I’m unraveling.
And I am unraveling.
This whole incident—getting nearly beaten to death by her charming cousin and somehow recovering in record time—has made everything feel too real. It’s one thing to see someone shift into a wolf. To hear people talk about magic and packs and bonds like it’s all normal. But it’s another thing entirely to feel bones realign under your skin. To wake up healed. Whole. Stronger than you have any right to be.
There’s no going back now.
No filing it away in the "weird shit" drawer and pretending it didn’t happen.
I rub my eyes, still seated at the small kitchen table. It’s quiet in here. The window above the sink lets in soft light filtered through the trees, and something about the creak of the floorboards and the ticking clock on the wall makes it feel almost domestic.
Which is insane.
Because I’m sitting in a literal werewolf’s house. Recovering from a supernatural fistfight. With a woman who says she’s my mate.
And yet—somehow—I feel oddly... safe.