Semua Bab The Alpha’s Contract Mate: Bab 171 - Bab 180

Chapter 171 : The Weight of What Cannot Be SaidThéo’s POVThe moment the elders walked past the corridor and their voices faded into silence, something inside me did not return to its normal place.It stayed open.Exposed.Restless in a way that had nothing to do with politics anymore.I had heard many threats in my life.Many warnings.Many carefully wrapped manipulations disguised as tradition.But that was different.That was not a suggestion.That was preparation.A legal structure already being shaped around Camille without her knowledge.And for the first time, I understood something I had been avoiding for too long.The council was not reacting to her.They were building against her.I turned slightly toward her, expecting to see shock, fear, confusion, or anger.Something human.Something I could respond to.But Camille only stood there in the dim corridor light, her face calm in a way that felt unfamiliar now.Not cold.Not distant.Just… settled.As if something inside her

Chapter 173 : The Silence That Was ArrangedCamille woke before the sun had fully risen over the pack estate, not because she was rested, but because something inside her had grown accustomed to alertness, as though her body no longer trusted stillness inside these walls, and even sleep had begun to feel like a temporary pause rather than true safety.At first, everything appeared unchanged.The room was quiet in the same way it always had been, the light soft against the edges of the curtains, the air carrying the faint scent of polished wood and distant firewood from the lower halls, and for a brief moment she allowed herself to believe that the tension of the previous night had been nothing more than another difficult conversation that would settle with time.But then she stepped outside.And she understood immediately that something had shifted.It was not loud.It was not announced.It was not even visible in an obvious way.It was absence.The corridors she normally passed throu

Chapter 175 : The Person Who Finally Told Me the TruthI did not sleep after overhearing the council meeting.Even after returning to my room, even after closing the door and extinguishing the lantern beside my bed, my body refused rest as though sleep itself had become impossible inside a place where every answer uncovered something worse beneath it.The words I had heard continued circling through my mind without pause.Containment.Succession control.Transition.Every sentence felt heavier now that I understood they were not speaking about theories or old history anymore.They were speaking about me.About what I represented.About what my existence could eventually change inside this pack.I sat near the window for most of the night with my knees pulled slightly toward my chest, staring into the darkness beyond the estate while my thoughts moved endlessly between fear and clarity, and somewhere between those emotions, another realization slowly settled into place.I could not kee

Chapter 177: The Girl They FearedCamille’s POVSleep never came.Even after Theo left my room, even after silence settled over the pack house once again, my thoughts refused to slow down long enough for rest to reach me. The conversation we had stayed inside my chest like something unfinished, something dangerous that had only cracked open instead of ending.Theo knew.Maybe not everything.Maybe not the full truth.But enough.Enough to look afraid whenever I mentioned the Crescent bloodline.Enough to try controlling where I went instead of simply telling me the truth.Enough to confirm that whatever the council was hiding had existed long before I ever stepped inside this pack house again.I sat near the window long after midnight, staring into the darkness outside while cold wind slipped softly through the curtains. The grounds below looked peaceful from a distance, almost normal beneath the moonlight, but I no longer trusted appearances inside this place.Nothing here was ever s

Chapter 179Camille no longer moved through the pack house the same way she once did because something inside her had shifted so deeply that even silence felt different in her chest, and every corridor she walked through now carried the weight of everything she had begun to understand without fully saying it aloud to anyone.There was no longer hesitation in her steps when she passed places where she used to feel small, there was no longer the instinct to lower her gaze whenever she sensed authority watching her, and there was no longer the quiet hope that someone would explain things to her gently, because she had already learned that explanations were never given freely in a system that survived on what it chose to hide.Instead, she moved with controlled awareness, as if she were learning the language of the house without speaking it, noticing how conversations would pause when she entered certain rooms, how certain elders would adjust their tone when Theo was present but soften in