All Chapters of Mated To The Enemy Alpha: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Lucian POVThe chamber felt too small and the stone walls pressed in. I heard my wolf growled under my skin, it was low and restless, like thunder waiting to break.The Elders stared at me and their eyes were sharp, old, heavy with judgment. Elder Corvus sat at the center, his silver hair catching the torchlight.“Lucian,” he said, his voice slow, deep. “Answer again. Where does your heart wander when the moon rises?”My chest tightened and I kept my face calm. “My duty is to my pack,” I said. “Always to my pack.”Another Elder leaned forward and his eyes narrowed. “You speak too quickly. Too firmly. As if you are hiding something.”My wolf pushed harder and I clenched my fists behind my back. “I hide nothing.”“Do you?” Elder Corvus studied me longer. His gaze slid, and searched and then he spoke with a strange weight.“I sense a pull in you. A forbidden bond.”The words struck like a blade and my heart stumbled and my wolf surged forward, claws scraped at the walls of my chest.“No

Lucian POV I sat alone in my room, the house was quiet and the moonlight came through the window and lay across the floor like silver water. I should sleep, but my body will not rest and my mind kept going back to him.Kai.I pressed my hands over my face, and I tried to push the thought away. It did not work. His smile stayed with me and the sound of his voice too. Even the way his scent lingered in the air when he walked past. It all burnt inside me like fire I couln’t put out.I stood up and walked across the room and and my wolf stirred inside me, restless.“Go to him”, the voice whispered in my chest. “He is ours. He is the one.”“No,” I said out loud, shaking my head and my voice sounded rough in the silence. “I can’t. If I go to him now, he will see. He will know.”He already knew, my wolf growled, softer, almost gentle. He felt it too and stopped fighting.I slammed my fist against the wall, not too hard, but enough to make a dull sound. “I can’t. If anyone finds out… if they

Lucian’s POVIt was darker than usual, and the night pressed hard against the pack grounds' walls. The moon's silver radiance was smothered by clouds, and the forest moaned like a predatory beast and beneath my skin, my wolf shifted restlessly, ears perked up, claws ready.Then I felt it, an edge in the air, sharp as steel. A foreign scent drifted on the wind, bitter, acrid, wrong. Rogues.I froze in the middle of the courtyard, my senses flaring. Shadows moved at the treeline, too quick, too deliberate. My guards hadn’t seen them yet, but I had. Every hair on my body stood on end.My lips curled into a low snarl. “They’re here.”The bond inside me throbbed suddenly, tugging me sideways, and I didn’t need to guess why. Kai. His energy flickered close, tangled with mine like fire threads. And for the first time, I realized something, he smelled faintly of the same smoke-laced stench that clung to the rogues.My chest tightened.No. Not him. He couldn't…. Movement snapped me out of thou

Lucian’s POVOnce more, there was silence in the packhouse, but it was no longer peaceful. It weighed heavily on my ears and pulled me further into unavoidable thoughts. My body was worn out from the battle, but my wolf refused to stop fighting. He growled and demanded as he paced inside me, his claws scraping the walls of my chest.Go to him. Ours. He could have died tonight.I dragged my hands over my face, trying to steady the storm, but every time I closed my eyes, I saw him, Kai, pinned beneath the rogue’s claws, his throat exposed, his breath caught. For a heartbeat, I thought I would lose him, and something inside me had snapped. I hadn’t fought like an Alpha defending his land. I had fought like a man protecting his mate.And I knew some of the pack had seen it.I replayed the way my claws tore deeper than they needed to, the way I shielded Kai long after the threat was gone, the way my snarl had risen the instant a rogue so much as touched him. That kind of fury wasn’t about l

Lucian POVThe night pressed heavy over the Blackclaw lands, a silence so deep it made my wolf uneasy. I stood at the balcony of my chamber, staring into the forest. Somewhere out there, rogues prowled. I could feel them, thin threads of hostility tugging at my instincts.My jaw clenched. For weeks, I had felt their eyes on us, lingering too close. Tonight, the pull in the air told me they were nearer than ever.But beneath the danger, something else gnawed at me.Kai.His scent still lingered faintly on my skin from the last time our paths crossed. My wolf growled low inside me, restless, wanting him, craving him. The more I fought it, the stronger it became. A bond that should not exist, a fire that would burn everything if exposed.And still, I could not let him go.The council’s warnings echoed in my head. Elder Corvus especially had been watching me with sharp eyes, sensing cracks in the mask I wore. If he, or anyone else, saw what was inside me, I would lose the pack. The bond t