All Chapters of The Alpha's Rogue Mate : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

“Rose.”Lucas’s voice was low, careful, the way it always was now when he didn’t want to startle me or the child. I turned from the window, already knowing what he was about to say by the tightness in his jaw.“The wards shifted again,” he continued. “Not broken. Not tested. Just… acknowledged.”I let out a slow breath. “He’s mapping us.”“Yes.”I moved back to the table and sat, easing myself down as another faint roll stirred beneath my ribs. The child had grown more active in the past days, as if aware that stillness was no longer an option.“How long?” I asked.Lucas leaned against the edge of the desk, arms folded. “Hours. Maybe days. Drake doesn’t rush when he believes he’s winning.”“He doesn’t believe he’s winning,” I corrected. “He believes we’re about to make a mistake.”Jake entered without knocking, expression hard. “Scouts returned from the western ridge. Nothing crossed the border, but something watched it.”Clara followed him in, braid thrown over one shoulder, eyes sha

“Rose, you need to rest.”Lucas’s voice followed me down the corridor, calm but edged with strain. He was trying not to sound like an Alpha giving an order and failing just enough that I noticed.“I will,” I replied without slowing. “After I understand what’s happening in my own home.”The child shifted again, not sharply this time, but insistently, like a reminder that I was not as alone in my body as I once had been. I adjusted my hand against my stomach and kept walking.Jake waited near the old archive door, arms crossed, posture loose but eyes alert. He straightened when he saw me.“You’re sure about this?” he asked.“No,” I said honestly. “But I’m doing it anyway.”Lucas sighed behind me. “At least pretend to listen when we worry.”I glanced back at him. His face was tight, shadows under his eyes deeper than they had been yesterday. The curse had not eased since the ritual. If anything, it felt like it was circling, testing.“I hear you,” I said more gently. “But I won’t sit sti

“Are you absolutely certain?”Lucas’s voice was low, steady, and threaded with the kind of fear he never allowed anyone else to hear.“Yes,” I said. “If we wait, he chooses the moment. If we act, we control the field.”Jake adjusted the strap of his sword and glanced between us. “The lower chamber is ready. Wards are masked, not broken. To anyone watching from the outside, it’ll look like a mistake. A desperate one.”“That’s what he expects,” I replied.The child shifted again, not frantic this time. Focused. The sensation was strange, unsettling in a way I hadn’t felt before. It wasn’t just movement. It was awareness.Lucas noticed my pause immediately. “What is it?”“He’s listening,” I said quietly.Jake went still. “Listening to what?”“To intent,” I answered. “Not words.”Lucas’s jaw tightened. “Then we keep ours clean.”We moved through the fortress quickly, avoiding the main corridors. Only a handful of guards knew what was happening. Fewer still knew why. That was intentional.

“Sit.”Lucas didn’t raise his voice, but the single word carried enough weight to still the room.Mara stopped two steps inside the chamber. Guards flanked the door behind her. Lila hovered just beyond the threshold, pale and trembling, eyes darting from Lucas to me and back again.Mara lowered herself onto the chair opposite the bed, smoothing her torn sleeves with careful hands. She looked smaller than I remembered. Thinner. Still sharp-eyed. Still calculating.“You asked to see us,” she said, dipping her chin toward Lucas. “We came.”“You asked for an audience,” Lucas corrected. “After withholding information.”Mara’s gaze slid to me. “I withheld nothing from Rose.”“That is not the same thing,” Lucas replied.I rested my hand over my stomach, steadying myself before speaking. “You said Drake reached out to you.”Mara nodded. “Before the conduit collapsed. He didn’t command me. He warned me.”“About what?” I asked.“That the curse would search for a new path if its leverage failed,

“Let him go.”My voice didn’t sound like mine anymore. It came out steadier than I felt, sharp enough to cut.The thing wearing Drake’s face paused, its head tilting slightly, as if tasting my words.“You keep asking for mercy,” it said. “As if mercy has ever ruled blood.”The pit below groaned. Stone shifted again, grinding against stone, and a wave of heat rolled up from the darkness. Not fire. Not lava. Something older. Something alive.I staggered as the bond surged, pain slicing through my ribs so fiercely I nearly screamed. I dropped to one knee, clutching my chest.Lucas.I could feel him now, clearer than before. Conscious. Trapped. His strength was bleeding away slowly, siphoned off with every heartbeat.“He’s suffering,” I said through clenched teeth. “That’s your goal, isn’t it?”The creature smiled. “Suffering sharpens obedience.”Jake moved closer to me, his blade still raised, his jaw tight with fury. “Say the word,” he murmured. “I don’t care what it is. I’ll kill it.”