All Chapters of Mated To The Enemy Alpha: Chapter 31 - Chapter 33

Lucian’s POVThe chamber was quiet, too quiet. The kind of silence that pressed against my skull until I could hear the thrum of my own heartbeat, steady and heavy like a war drum. The moonlight spilled through the window, silver and sharp, brushing across Selene’s shoulder where my mark now burned bright against her skin.She slept, her breath steady, her body curled faintly toward me. The bond tethered us now, unbreakable in the eyes of the council, permanent in the laws of the pack.And yet, as I stared at her, my chest did not feel full. It felt hollow.My wolf paced inside me, restless. She is not the one. This bond is a cage. You’ve chained us to the wrong heart.I pressed a hand against my temple and shut my eyes. For a fleeting second, I could feel him,Kai. His warmth, his scent, the thread between us still burning beneath the forced bond. It hadn’t been erased. It hadn’t been silenced.It had only grown more painful.Selene shifted and murmured something in her sleep. Her ski

Zara’s POV The Council chamber was colder than usual. Perhaps it was the way the torches burned low, or the way the stone walls echoed every sound as if the mountain itself were holding its breath. I sat behind the carved railing with my fingers folded neatly, my nails digging into my skin to keep from trembling. This was it, the moment I had worked for. Lucian stood before the Elders, tall, still, every line of his body screaming control. But I saw the faint tightening in his jaw, the way his hands stayed behind his back like he was holding himself together with sheer force. Elder Corvus was the first to speak, his voice deep and grave. “Lucian, Alpha of the Crescent Pack, you have been summoned because troubling evidence has been presented against you.” The parchment on the table looked so small, so harmless. Yet I knew what it contained: images, words, fragments of nights he thought were hidden. His stolen glances, his whispers when he thought no one listened, the name he repea