All Chapters of Alphas' Contract Mate: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Alex's POV “Fuck!” I roared for the umpteenth time, slamming my fist against the wall. Calm down. Tell him the truth, my wolf muttered, pacing like a damn philosopher through my mind. “Oh yeah? And how do you suggest I tell Axel?” I snapped out loud. “That tight-ass would raze the entire pack to the ground.” My blood boiled. I could chew through steel, or a cow—or Frank, if he pissed me off tonight. Either way, someone was going to bleed. I cracked my knuckles, rolling my neck until it popped. “Alex,” came Axel’s cool voice, sneaking into my head without warning. “It’s time.” “I was just about to reply, you intrusive bastard,” I grumbled, rubbing my temples. “I can feel your agitation,” he said, his tone unreadable as always. “Want to talk?” I paused. Axel couldn't read minds, thank the goddess, but that didn’t stop him from seeing through shit. He’d trained for it. I had tricks too, but my brother’s calm always unnerved me. “Nothing to talk about,” I said with a shru

Mia's POV#Before the charming Alexander's great fall.I froze when a man… guard? appeared beside me. One second I was trying to blend into the crowd. The next, a dozen eyes were already on me. And it was because of a guard who chose the wrong moment to show up.“Mia?” The guard raised an eyebrow at me.I stiffly nodded. How did he know my name?“Please, come with me,” he continued wryly, like he already knew what would happen if I resisted.He didn’t have to worry because I wasn’t stupid. Resisting would only make me look like a complication to the pack. And if I’d learned anything in this twisted place, it was that Axel and Alex loved complications.I followed the guard silently, but my eyes flicked to the pit. Down below, the fight had taken a predictable turn. Alex was stalking Frank like prey, while Frank settled for a defensive crouch.The crowd held its breath, watching how pitiable it was for Frank. Against other ranks, he may have had a chance, but against Alex…“Okay, maybe

Mia’s POVI stayed still so not even the wind could sense me. Most people don’t know how to disappear properly. They think hiding is crouching behind a tree or holding their breath. But hiding is a skill and a mindset.I’d trained for years, and I’d learned how to mask my scent, slow my breathing, and lower my heartbeat. It’s not magic… I’ve been hunted enough to know when to become the shadow in the leaves. It was one of the few things I was proud of.So I listened as Axel and the silver-haired woman, called Hansel, spoke on the edge of the arena. At first, the woman blamed me for Alex’s loss. I hadn’t done anything, but yeah, he drooled over me, and I wasn’t going to deny what I felt when he stared at me either.The tension was real, but I should’ve stayed in the shadows. Now everyone was putting the pieces together, and for the first time, they saw me as the reason things went off the rails. I didn’t know if Axel or Alex had been covering up the fact that I was a rogue, but after

Mia's POV Flash-back. Five Years Ago.“What is going on, Mia? Why can't you change like the rest of us?”I gasped at Daphne. Maybe it was the loud, sharp pitch she used that made everyone’s heads turn or maybe it was the silence that followed. Every eye suddenly turned to me like I’d grown a second head.I was tempted to tell my best friend to keep her voice down, but something told me not to. Daphne had changed. Ever since I told her that Tristan and I were mated, she had become more… sarcastic. What did I do to her? Looking at her now, I couldn’t ignore how her brows were raised and how her voice was filled with worry. I think I was overthinking it, because clearly, she was genuinely concerned about me.But wait. Her eyes… her eyes were the same cold ones I’d seen when she lied to the pack’s training gamma, Gemma, about whose fault it was that the training dummy got slashed open.I mean, it was supposed to be slashed open, so what was the point of lying about it? I hadn’t even do

Alex's POV “Fuck,” I groaned, stretching out my bones. Frank’s hit had taken me about ten minutes to recover from—though truthfully, I was fine long before the guards even reached the infirmary. It was easy enough to fake that my bones were still rearranging themselves while my brother handled the rest of the night. I simply enjoyed the ride. As I closed my eyes, Mia’s face flashed into my mind. She looked surprisingly good in my clothes. Too bad she was just on a contract. Axel hadn’t told me, but I knew the deal—once she gave an heir to either of us, we would… Kill her? Send her away? I wasn’t sure which. I quickly linked to my brother, who had been spewing nonsense about Lunar wolves lately. Sure, the Desori Claw pack specialized in intelligence, but that didn’t mean he could play with mine. Lunar wolves? What a joke. They don’t even exist… not since the last… Rebellion. My eyes snapped open. Fucking hell. How had that slipped my mind? And it hadn’t even happened t