All Chapters of Run Little Mate: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Elara’s POVAll the sensations that had been flooding my body stopped and all that was left was…peace, and warmth. The warmth spread from everywhere we were in contact to the rest of my body as my heart beat slowed down. I hadn’t been suffocating, but it felt like I could breathe. My chest expanded to its maximum capacity as I took in his scent, my wolf clamoring for more with each breath I took. My head and arms were on his chest, and his arms were wound tightly around me with his face buried in my hair. I could hear his heartbeat. It was one of the most beautiful sounds I’d ever had the opportunity to listen to, coming in second only after Eren’s laughter.My face was wet, my hair was also wet. I was crying. Was Kael crying too? Why were we crying? We were grown adults.I didn’t push him away, I stayed in his embrace, because secretly, no matter how much I had avoided thinking about it, I had missed Kael with a ferocious intensity even I couldn’t fully understand. Our bond, which u

Elara’s POVAfter guessing who the man was, the constant knocking on the door was less of a knock and more of a thunderclap. It rattled through the cabin walls, vibrating down into my bones.Lucan stiffened, hand automatically dropping to his dagger with trauma in his movements. It wasn’t funny but I felt like laughing. Kael didn’t even flinch, he just exhaled, slow and deliberate, like he also already knew who it was.But then the door flew open without so much as a pause, and there he was, Alpha Horell. Looking annoyingly spry for someone whose joints had sounded like they were auditioning for a percussion section just an hour ago.“My dear girl!” Horell boomed, as though I had been the one to invite him over. His eyes were too bright and too hungry and they zeroed in on me like I was the only person in the room, completely ignoring the tension. “Elara, was it? Yes, yes, forgive me earlier. I was… unsettled. Distracted. The moment I saw your pin I thought- ah. Lera, and I had to com

Elara’s POV“Do you hate me?”, Kael’s voice sounded behind me after I had walked at least ten cabins down. I startled and nearly dropped my satchel before I whipped around to face him.“I thought I said I don’t want to be followed?”, I scowled. He shrugged and fell into step behind me.“You know I wouldn’t listen”.This version of Kael was foreign to me. He was like a shadow, disappearing and appearing at will. I hadn’t sensed or smelled him coming even though now that he was beside me he was all I could feel.No matter how much I wanted to deny it, his presence was exhilarating. I looked at him from the corner of my eye, trying to analyze him properly.He looked strong and unyielding but I could see under that cover and what was under it was a man that was tired. He was drained, he was pissed, there was an undercurrent of fire under his skin and a void in his eyes.What horrors had he seen?“Selene. She came to my pack two years ago”, I said, looking for a topic to broach. Deep down

Elara’s POV“Is your arm… glowing?” Nerya asked suddenly, her steps sharp and quick, crunching into the snow as she spun toward me.Panic slammed into me. My shawl wasn’t enough to smother the light spilling faintly through the gaps in the weave, and the tingling had become a sharp, pulsing heat, like something alive was pressing to be seen.I instinctively stumbled back, nearly tripping in the snow. Kael moved the same instant, stepping in front of me, his body angled like a shield, broad shoulders blocking her curious gaze.Nerya’s eyes narrowed. “What was that?” She tried to dart sideways, her hand already reaching.Kael shifted with a predator’s ease, blocking her line of sight again, a low growl barely vibrating from his chest. “Why do you want to see my mating bond?”The words came out flat, steady, but edged like a blade.I froze.Mating bond. He lied. He didn’t even know what the mark was but he lied to protect me.Nerya stopped dead, her hand falling limp at her side. Her exp

Elara’s POVI woke up to the sound of… nothing. There were no birds chirping, neither were there children stomping and laughing. There wasn’t even the ambient warm sound of the sun, the forest and the air itself as magic thrummed all around. There was just nothing. It was strange.I was terrified at first till I remembered, this wasn’t my pack. This was the blackthorn pack, a pack where endless snow was considered a good thing and every place was coated with sharpness, like they couldn’t bear to watch you go around soft and happy.Getting out of the narrow piece of uncomfrtoable foam they called a bed, I stared at the wall. My face immediately began heating up despite the harsh cold when I remmembered what had happened yestereday. Kael. I had seen Kael.And he hadn’t ridiculed me, or forced my hand. It was completely unlike the worst case scenarios I’d been expecting. He was still the same man I knew, but, his edges had sharpened. Even still, there was something softer about his emo