Semua Bab The Alpha’s Contract Mate: Bab 151 - Bab 160

Chapter 151: The Distance Between Us ChangedTheo stood there for a moment after Camille finished speaking, and for the first time in a very long time, he did not know what to say immediately.Not because he lacked words.But because none of them felt strong enough to reach her anymore.The corridor around them remained quiet, the soft light from the high windows stretching across the stone floor, touching the walls, the silence, the space between them that suddenly felt much larger than it actually was.Camille had not shouted at him.She had not accused him wildly.She had not broken down or turned away in anger.And somehow…That hurt more.Because Theo knew her well enough to understand what it meant when she became this calm.This controlled.This careful with her emotions.It meant something inside her had shifted deeply enough that she no longer trusted herself to react freely.Theo watched her closely, his chest tightening slowly as he realized she was standing in front of him

Chapter 153 : The Choice They Want to Force Into HimTheo did not sleep that night.Not properly.Not in the way that allowed rest to settle into the body and clear the mind.He remained awake in fragments, drifting between awareness and thought, between memory and calculation, between Camille’s words and the elders’ silence that had carried more weight than anything they had spoken aloud.Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the same thing again.Not the council room.Not the gathering.But Camille standing still in the corridor, calm in a way that no longer reached for him the same way it used to.That image stayed with him longer than he wanted it to.And when he finally gave up on sleep entirely, it was not exhaustion that pulled him from his room.It was summons.Not formal.Not announced.But understood.Theo arrived at the council chamber without escort.The door was already open.That alone told him this was not a discussion that would follow normal structure.It was already

Chapter 155 : The Name That Was RemovedThe archive room became Camille’s refuge long before anyone realized she had started using it for more than quiet curiosity.At first, the elders had seen her presence there as harmless.Acceptable.Even beneficial.A Luna learning pack traditions appeared obedient rather than dangerous, and Camille understood quickly that people underestimated quiet behavior when it came wrapped in calmness instead of resistance.So she allowed them to underestimate her.And while they watched her less carefully, she learned more than they intended her to.The archive room rested beneath the older wing of the pack house, tucked behind heavy wooden doors that rarely remained open for long. The air inside carried the scent of aged parchment, dust, candle wax, and old cedar shelves that had held generations of records longer than most living members had been alive.The room was always colder at night.Camille noticed that during her third evening there.The deeper

Chapter 157Camilla POVI keep walking even after I leave the lower archives, but my steps don’t feel like mine anymore.They feel automatic.Controlled.Like my body is still following rules my mind has already broken.The corridor is quiet in the way the pack house only becomes late at night—heavy, still, almost respectful. The kind of silence that usually feels safe.Tonight, it doesn’t.Tonight, the silence feels like it is listening.I press my fingers lightly against the cold stone wall as I walk, not because I need support, but because I need something solid to remind me I am still here. Still real. Still in control.But I am not fully in control.Not anymore.Because my thoughts are still down there.In the archive room.In the dust-covered shelves.In the hidden chest that should have been meaningless, forgotten, irrelevant.Except it wasn’t.It was too structured for something forgotten.Too preserved.Too carefully arranged in a way that suggested someone, somewhere, had on

Chapter 159: The Calm That Frightened HimCamille’s POVThe pack house was quiet at night.Not completely silent.Nothing inside the Alpha estate was ever truly silent.There were always distant footsteps from guards changing shifts, quiet voices somewhere down the halls, the faint crackling of lantern fire against stone walls.But tonight, the silence felt heavier.Almost watchful.I sat near the window in my room, one knee pulled slightly toward my chest while the cold night air brushed softly against my skin. A candle flickered beside me, throwing weak golden light across the pages spread open on the bed.Old notes.Symbols.Names.Fragments.My fingers rested lightly over the small crescent symbol I had copied again earlier that evening.The same symbol connected to my mother.To the erased records.To me.My chest tightened slightly.Not emotionally.Not the way it used to whenever things overwhelmed me.This feeling was sharper now.Controlled.Careful.I had spent too many year