My Professor Is My Alpha Mate

Chapter 63

Lila’s POV
“Miss Lila?” A nurse said, walking up to us, before Enzo had a chance to answer my question. “I’m sorry
to interrupt your conversation. But Miss Rachel is asking for you. She just woke up and you’re the first
person she wants to see. She’s calm now if you’d like to see her.”
I stood up quickly.
“She’s awake already?” I asked.
I wasn’t expecting her to wake up this soon but the nurse nodded.
“We only gave her a small sedative that lasted less than an hour. It was just to calm her and it seemed
to have worked,” the nurse explained.
I glanced back down at Enzo who remained in his seat; he was staring at me with a darkened gaze. I
could tell there was stuff he wanted to say to me; perhaps he wanted to answer my question. But he
remained quiet and continued to stare at me.
My heart flipped in my chest, but I had to go see Rachel, so I turned away from him and went with the
nurse to the backroom where Rachel’s room was.
Rachel lay in her bed, staring at the ceiling, with tears staining her fair features. I could tell it was taking
everything she had not to lose control and start crying at that moment.
My heart squeezed painfully in my chest; I couldn’t imagine what she must have been going through.
The amount of pain she must have been feeling.
I couldn’t even fathom it.
The nurse left us alone and I wasn’t really sure what to say so I sat down at her bedside and waited for
her to say something instead.
“They won’t tell me anything…” she croaked. “Last I saw of him he was crashing, and they were thinking
he was going to die…”
“He’s still alive,” I tell her quickly, trying to shut down whatever thoughts were invading her mind.
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She almost looked relieved; she closed her eyes and released a couple of stray tears that lingered in her
eyes.
“Do they know if he’s going to be okay?”
“He’s stable for right now; they are keeping him monitored and will know more at a later time,” I

explain.
She doesn’t say anything to that. I reach over and touch her hand, trying to provide her with some sort
of comfort.
“Rachel… I’m so sorry…” I breathed. “I can’t imagine what you are going through.”
“You know… Ryan saved me…” she breathed, keeping her eyes closed.
“In the fire?” I asked.
“In high school,” she answered.
“I had no idea you’ve known him for that long.”
“I was angry when I first met him,” she admitted. “But he was always kind to me regardless of how angry
I would get.”
“How did he save you?”
“I don’t know if I ever talked to you about my home life… but it’s not a good place,” she told me; she
opened her eyes so she could peer over at me. “My father was incredibly abusive…”
I couldn’t help the gasp that came out of my mouth. I instantly covered my mouth with my hands and
stared at her in shock.
“He was an alcoholic and he abused me and my mother for most of my life. My mother ended up
leaving… she left me behind…”
“Oh, Rachel…” I breathed.
My heart shattered for her, and I didn’t know what else to say to her.
“Bears are naturally known for their tempers and my father was incredibly temperamental. The smallest
things would set him off. Living at home was like walking on eggshells. I could never do anything right
by him. I would go to school with bruises that just wouldn’t heal.”
“Because bears don’t have a quick healing ability like wolves do?” I asked.
There wasn’t much I knew about bears; in fact, Rachel was the first bear shifter that I knew. There were a
bunch of bears that went to our school, and they would be referred to as the weaker of the species.
“Right,” she answered. “So, my bruises and cuts would be very visible despite how hard I tried to cover
them up. I turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain… not the physical pain. The emotional pain. I
just didn’t want to feel anymore…”
“I never knew this…” I whispered, gazing at the ground.
“I never wanted anyone to know this,” she admitted. “But Ryan found me lying under the bleachers of
our school and he brought me to the hospital. I took a pill too much and almost died. I didn’t even
know who he was and he stayed by my side until I woke up. But because he was strange kid that I
recognized from school and because I was so angry, I was cruel to him…”
“Obviously you didn’t chase him away seeming you are still together,” I told her.
She gave me a small and crooked smile.
“It wasn’t always like that though. Like I said, I was very cruel to him. He tried to get me to talk to him
and to let him help me, but I refused all forms of help from him. He knew I was going down the rabbit
hole of drugs and alcohol and he tried to get me to stop. He was a stupid boy, but his heart was in the
right place,” she said as she shook her head at the memory.
“He sounds genuine,” I said in return.
She nods at my statement and then sighs.
“I was never the one who believed in mates and falling in love. It was clear what Ryan’s intentions were
and I thought of myself as broken and unlovable. I told myself that I didn’t want a mate…”
Her words struck a chord with me. It was like Enzo not wanting a mate. I wasn’t sure if Enzo was the
mate that I wanted as well, but when it came down to it, he was my mate and unless he rejects me, I
don’t think I have much of a choice in the matter.
My heart ached at the thought, knowing that Enzo doesn’t have any desire to have a mate.
But then again, if Rachel had no desire to have a mate when she was younger, but then changed her
mind, maybe Enzo would change his mind too.
Would it make me feel better if he did?
“What made you change your mind?” I found myself asking. “Why did you decide to give him a
chance?”
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