All Chapters of Mated To My Brother-In-Law: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

KaylaI stayed two more nights in Hilda's cottage. The first morning, I woke up to the smell of porridge, a bowl waiting for me on the small table by the fire. The storm had stopped, though it looked like there was still more rain stored in the dark clouds. Hilda was in her garden, her hands buried in the soil, and she did not ask if I had made a decision. She simply smiled and said breakfast was getting cold.I ate in silence, staring at the fireplace that warmed my wolf and kept her at bay. The second day, I helped her gather herbs. She showed me which leaves healed and which ones were harmful. The roots could be brewed into tea and were better left in the ground because they were poisonous.She still did not press me for an answer. She did not mention the power, the sacrifice, nor the choice that waited for me like a door half open. She simply let me be, and I found myself grateful for that. Grateful for the silence and a space where no one expected me to be anything other than

NickThe street was silent as a graveyard.Nick stood beside his car, the driver’s door still open, and the cold night air biting at his face. He watched Kira walk back toward her parents' house, her back straight as an unyielding blade. She did not look back. He hoped she would, but he knew it was in Kira's nature to never look back. Even when his wolf could sense her hurt, she kept going. His chest ached with a weird kind of pain. The bond between his wolf and Kira's struggled on its last leg, as if fighting for its last breath. The energy shifted the moment she announced she was leaving in two days. Two days later, she would reject him formally. It would only take a while for the bond to sever and leave him wondering what if. The weight of what was yet to come pressed down on his shoulders until he thought his legs might give out. He noticed Kayla was still standing by the passenger door. A few feet away from him, still wrapped in his jacket. Her arms were crossed tight over her

Kira In everything that constantly derailed my mind, a dream that came without warning was the shove I never saw coming.One moment, I was drifting in darkness—soon after eating dinner in stiff silence after my parents fussed over Kayla. Next, I was running as if I were being chased.My bare feet slapped against cold, wet ground that rippled through my body. The forest surrounded me, not the familiar woods of Dark Valley I was used to, but something darker. The trees looked like human skeletons, their branches in the shape of hands reaching toward the blood moon that hung too low in the sky. The blood moon seemed out of place. My heart hammered against my ribs, and my lungs burnt at the speed my legs were taking me. I didn’t know exactly what I was running from, only that something was behind me. Something faster to compete with my werewolf speed. I could smell its hunger. I risked a glance over my shoulder. The red eyes were the first I saw in the dark, then the pale skin and fa

ALFIE The training yard was still empty by the time Alfie finished his last set of drills. Sweat soaked through his shirt, and his muscles ached with the exhaustion of a hard morning’s work. He had pushed himself harder than usual, trying to outrun the tension that had settled into the packhouse like a second skin. The council’s deadline for Kira to reject the alpha, and Nick's trying to sandwich himself between the twins' fractured relationship. It all pressed down on him in a suffocating manner that made him suddenly have the urge to go for a swim or drown himself in a tub full of ice. He grabbed his water bottle from the bench and drank deeply, the cool liquid a relief against his parched throat. The sun was climbing higher now, burning off the last traces of the pre-dawn chill, and the training yard was quiet except for the distant sound of birds and the rustle of leaves. He was alone. Or so he thought. “You’re up early.” Alfie turned. Harper stood by the edge of the trainin

Kayla What I needed to clear my fogged head was nothing more than the morning cold against my skin as tiny beads of sweat rolled down the sides of my face. I had been running for nearly an hour, my legs burning and lungs aching as a torch hung below me, but I didn't slow down. The rhythm of my feet against the pavement was the only thing keeping the chaos in my chest at rest… alongside my heartbreak song playlist. Every time I stopped or took a deep breath, the thoughts came rushing back. Nick admitting to wanting Kira and Kira… The weight of her lies was choking me. My sister killed someone and had been lying to me for years… Thanks to my convenient memory loss. And Nick covered it up. With no shame whatsoever. How great was his love for her that not even the mate bond he shared with me deterred him? I rounded a corner and entered one of the main streets of the town. The small shops and cafes just began opening for the day, and the sweet scent of fresh-baked goods drew my feet t