All Chapters of Mated in the Hatred of Alpha King: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

The council chamber reeked of fear disguised as protocol.It always smelled faintly of parchment and polished stone, but this morning there was something sour under the incense. There was a tremor of adrenaline masked as decorum. Sunlight lanced through the tall stained-glass windows of the Blood Mo

Esther’s POVKevin’s scent reached me before his voice did. Pine and iron, sharp as a storm front. I’d been in the palace infirmary checking inventory when the alarms rippled through the halls. There were raised voices, hurried boots, then a Beta’s barked orders. By the time I reached the main hall,

Esther’s POVI’d barely closed the infirmary door when the vibration against my hip startled me. My phone pulsed with a message from the caretaker assigned to the twins in the guest wing:Kids won’t nap. Acting restless. Asking for you.I stared at the text until it blurred. They’d been restless for

Esther’s POVThe moon had already climbed past the roof when I finally closed the infirmary door behind me. Carl lay sleeping under a haze of sedatives, the thin sheet rising and falling with his fragile breath. Sofia had curled into the chair beside him, thumb tucked under her cheek, dreaming throu

Nicholas’s POVThe report landed on my desk like a blade.A single cream envelope, unmarked except for the lab’s embossed seal, sat atop the stack of dispatches Dan had left. No courier had dared enter. They’d just left it there in the center, an island of silence amid contracts and petitions.Norma