All Chapters of I want this Alpha: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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Chapter 21 - Enid's POV

I learned how fast a pack could turn on one of its own.When I walked past, conversations bent and broke. Some wolves dipped their heads, eyes bright with something close to reverence. Others stared too long, nostrils flaring, fear sharp and sour.“Don’t look at them,” Nina muttered at my side. “They’re acting like you’re going to sneeze fire.”“I might,” I said. “I haven’t ruled it out.”She snorted, loud on purpose, and hooked her arm through mine as if daring anyone to comment. It helped. A little.By midday, runners were everywhere. The word emergency traveled faster than any bike. Council gathering. Mandatory. Immediate. The phrase sat heavy in my chest. I had spent my life fixing engines and minding my business. Suddenly, I was an agenda item.We reached the main hall and the smell hit me first, old wood, oil, sweat, history. Elders lined the long table, faces carved from time and bad decisions. Voices overlapped, sharp and clipped.“It was uncontrolled.”“It was a blessing.”“F

Chapter 22 - Asher's POV

The council didn’t so much deliberate as it did fracture.Voices overlapped, rose, snapped. The old problems that people had with each other started to come out. They made it sound like they were just worried. Fear was hiding behind what sounded like reasons. I stood at the head of the room, hands braced on the table that had scratches all over it, jaw locked so tight it ached.“She’s blessed,” one elder insisted, palm thumping the table. “The Moon doesn’t mark wolves without reason.”“And the Moon doesn’t clean up the mess when power goes wrong,” another shot back. “You saw the flames. You felt them. That wasn’t normal.”Nothing about her has ever been normal, my wolf snarled.I said nothing.Inside me, my wolf paced like a caged thing, claws scraping the inside of my ribs. Claim her. Stand between her and every threat. Burn the room down if you have to. His rage wasn’t subtle. Neither was his fear.“She’s an unstable weapon,” someone else said, not even bothering to lower their voic

Chapter 23 - Enid's POV

Sleep took me the way storms usually did—sudden, violent, and with absolutely no concern for my emotional wellbeing.One moment I was staring at the ceiling, replaying Asher’s carefully blank face in the council chamber like a bad rerun I couldn’t turn off, and the next, fire swallowed me whole.Not his fire.Mine.I stood in the middle of a forest I didn’t recognize, trees towering like silent witnesses. Silver flames rolled off my hands in lazy curls, beautiful and terrifying, licking bark and leaves without burning them the way normal fire should. The ground trembled beneath my boots, responding to me like it had been waiting for instructions.“This is new,” I muttered, except my voice echoed wrong, layered with something deeper. Older.The flames moved when I thought about them. Swept outward, racing between the trees, setting shadows running. The shadows didn’t scream. They whispered.Enid.My name slid through the air, soft and coaxing, like a secret shared in the dark.“Nope,”

Chapter 24 - Asher's POV

The compound had started to feel like a place that was building up a lot of tension. It seemed like something bad was going to happen. It was like a pot of water that was getting hotter and hotter and it felt like it was going to boil over at any moment.The engines were really loud now. Patrol bikes were always going at all hours of the day and night. Their headlights shone through the darkness, like eyes that were always watching. The people who used to be happy and laugh were now just standing in corners looking worried. When I walked by everyone stopped talking. The air even felt different, it was heavy and uncomfortable. It was like people could sense that something was wrong even before they really thought about it. The engines, the patrol bikes and the whole situation were just making everyone feel uneasy and scared.I really did not like that feeling. It meant that my pack felt like they were being hunted. My pack was what mattered to me. When they felt like they were in dange

Chapter 25 - Enid's POV

Nina didn’t give me time to really think about things.That was her gift and her curse.I was halfway through my third round of staring at the same bolt on my workbench—thinking absolutely nothing useful—when she leaned against the doorway, arms crossed, mouth already twitching with that look. The one that meant she’d decided something and my opinion was optional.“No,” she said.I blinked. “No… what?”“No wallowing. No brooding. No tragic heroine monologue where you stare into the distance like you’re auditioning for a pack-produced drama.”“I wasn’t—”“You absolutely were.” She pushed off the doorframe and pointed at me. “You’ve been vibrating with misery for three days. It’s messing with my sleep schedule.”I snorted despite myself. “Sorry my potential curse is inconvenient.”“Oh, please.” She rolled her eyes. “If being mildly cursed disqualified people from functioning, half this pack would be furniture.”I sighed and leaned back against the bench. “I don’t know what I’m supposed

Chapter 26 - Asher's POV

Corvin lived exactly where men like him always did—half a mile past where the road gave up pretending it was useful.I parked my bike beside a crooked fence that looked like it had lost more fights than it had won and killed the engine. The sudden quiet pressed in, thick and watchful. The woods around his cabin felt older than IronClaw, older than the council, older than my patience.“Of course you live in a horror story,” I muttered, pulling off my helmet.The door opened before I knocked.Corvin stood there barefoot, gray hair tied back, leather vest hanging open over skin inked with symbols I didn’t recognize and didn’t like. His eyes—sharp, bright, too knowing—flicked over me.“Took you long enough, Alpha,” he said. “Moon’s been screaming for days.”I scowled. “You could’ve sent a memo.”He snorted and stepped aside. “Come in before the forest decides you’re rude.”Inside smelled like smoke, herbs, and old oil. A biker shrine met a shaman’s den—candles beside engine parts, bones h

Chapter 27 - Enid's POV

I woke up with the smell of smoke still in my nose.Not the comforting kind—the garage kind, oil and metal and heat—but something sharper, wilder, like the forest itself had been set on edge. My body ached in places I didn’t remember hurting, muscles pulled tight as if I’d been clenching all night. When I swung my legs over the bed, my palms tingled, faintly warm, like embers that hadn’t quite decided to die.“Please tell me I didn’t burn down half the territory,” I muttered to no one.Nina, who had apparently decided personal space was optional this morning, lifted her head from my spare pillow. “If you did, I want it on record that I told you to stretch first.”I snorted despite myself. “You’re not helping.”She grinned, then frowned when she really looked at me. “Okay, scratch that—you look like you wrestled a bonfire and lost. Come on. You need to see this.”That was how we ended up at the edge of the woods where I’d trained the night before. The air felt wrong the second we cross

Chapter 28 - Asher's POV

I first noticed something was off when Jasper stopped pretending everything was fine.He did that thing where he leaned against the railing outside the command hall, arms crossed, jaw set like he was bracing for impact. Beta posture without the warmth. Brother posture without the patience. I should have known then that he’d found something out.“You’re meeting Corvin,” he said, no greeting, no preamble. Just dropped it between us like a live wire.I didn’t turn around. The compound was loud behind me, engines revving, metal clanking, wolves laughing too hard to drown out nerves. Normal noise. Necessary noise. “Careful,” I said. “You sound like you’re accusing your Alpha of gossip.”He snorted. “If you were gossiping, this pack would already be dead.”That got me to face him. His eyes were sharp, searching, the same eyes that had watched my back in blood and fire. “How do you know?”“You forget I still have friends who don’t report everything straight to you,” he said. “Retired shaman

Chapter 29 - Enid's POV

The summons came with all the warmth of a punch to the throat.A runner found me in the garage, oil on my hands, sweat on my neck, and a half-fixed engine glaring at me like it knew I was about to abandon it. He didn’t look at me directly, just cleared his throat and said my name like it tasted wrong.“Enid, the council wants you. Now.”Not asked. Not requested. Wanted. Like a faulty part they needed to inspect before deciding whether to toss it or tighten the bolts.I wiped my hands on a rag that had seen better days and worse lies. Nina, who had been perched on a crate pretending not to eavesdrop, slid off it in one smooth motion.“Well,” she said brightly, “that escalated faster than my last bad haircut.”I shot her a look. “You cried for three days.”“It was a very emotional fringe.”We walked together across the compound, my boots heavy against the concrete, the air thick with something sour. Eyes followed me. Some curious. Some afraid. Some reverent in a way that made my skin it

Chapter 30 - Asher's POV

The room felt smaller the moment I stepped into it.Not because of walls or elders or the way their attention snapped to me like a pulled trigger, but because Enid was standing there, back straight, chin lifted, fire barely leashed behind her eyes. The bond surged, sharp and furious, like it had been waiting for this exact second to remind me what I was risking.I didn’t look at her. Not yet. If I did, I wouldn’t stop.The council chamber buzzed with half-raised voices, accusation layered over fear. Someone was saying cursed. Someone else was saying unstable. I heard my pack spoken about like a problem to be solved instead of people who bled for this territory.Enough.I moved forward, boots striking wood with deliberate weight, and placed myself between Enid and the elders before anyone could object. It wasn’t a gesture I planned. It just happened, instinct louder than reason.Every gaze locked on me.“Alpha,” one of the elders began.“No,” I said, voice calm and cutting, the way it

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