All Chapters of The Alpha Who Killed My Family Is My Mate: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Suspicion

“Half the pack thinks the traitor is standing next to them at dinner tonight.”Faolan dropped onto the wooden bench across from me as she said it, pushing a bowl aside with her elbow to make space. The longhouse was fuller than usual, but it wasn’t loud the way Nightfang meals normally were. Voices stayed low. Conversations ended quickly when someone new stepped close.Donovan sat beside her, leaning back against the table.“You’re exaggerating.”“Am I?” Faolan gestured loosely around the room. “Look at them.”I didn’t need to look. I had already noticed the change.Nightfang wolves usually carried themselves with the relaxed confidence of a pack that trusted its own strength. Tonight, the atmosphere felt tighter. Every group of warriors seemed slightly smaller than usual, and the spaces between them felt wider.Lilith set her cup down beside me.“People are talking,” she said quietly.“That’s not surprising,” Donovan replied.“No,” Lilith said. “But they aren’t talking the same way t

The Thorn Connection

“Rylan’s been at it since sunrise.”Donovan said it like a man who had already heard too many answers that led nowhere. He stood beside the training yard fence, one arm resting against the wood, watching a pair of younger wolves spar without much interest. I stepped up beside him. “And?”He exhaled once through his nose. “And nothing. Not yet. He’s spoken to every patrol leader who was in that hall yesterday. Same answers. Same confusion.”That doesn’t mean they’re telling the truth.” “No,” Donovan said, glancing at me briefly, “but it means whoever did this knows how to keep quiet.”The two wolves in the yard closed in distance, circled, then broke apart again without committing. Even the practice fights had changed. No one wanted to be the one who made a mistake and drew eyes for the wrong reason.Faolan and Lilith were by the well when we crossed the yard. “Any progress?” Faolan asked.Donovan shook his head. “Rylan’s still working through them.”Lilith leaned against the ston

The truth between us

“You were there the night my pack died.”The words tore out of me before I could stop them, rough and unsteady, carrying more than I meant to show. I had held them in for too long, shaped them into something sharper, something controlled, but now that they were out, there was no pulling them back.Kael didn’t flinch, nor did he look away.“Yes, I was,” he said.That was all it took. Something in my chest gave way. I closed the distance between us too fast, my hands slamming into his chest, fingers curling into his shirt like I needed something solid to hold onto or I would fall apart right there.“You led them,” I said, but my voice wasn’t steady anymore. It shook, cracked under the weight of everything I was trying to keep contained. “You came through our gates. You brought them into my home and you—” “I didn’t give the order!”The words cut in, quiet but firm. I shook my head immediately, harder than I meant to, like I could physically reject what he was saying, “No. No, don’t—d

The spy revealed

“Don’t move.”Rylan’s voice cut across the training ground, loud enough that it pulled every head toward him before anyone had time to ask why.The shift was immediate. Conversations thinned out, then died altogether as wolves turned, one after another, until the entire clearing tilted in that direction. What they found wasn’t confusion or noise or the kind of disorder that usually followed a command like that.It was stillness.Rylan stood near the edge of the clearing, shoulders squared, attention fixed on one man.Caius.He stood a few steps ahead of him, neither retreating nor advancing, his posture relaxed in a way that felt wrong the longer you looked at it.“What is this?” Caius asked, glancing briefly at the wolves beginning to spread out along the edges of the clearing. “If this is another round of questioning, you could have called me in like everyone else.”Rylan didn’t move.“Stay where you are,” he said, quieter now, but somehow heavier.The difference settled over the c

Magnus’s Move

By the time Caius reached the gates, his legs were already giving out beneath him.The guards did not greet him, did not question him, did not even pretend this was anything other than what it was. They caught him before he could fall, hauled him upright, and dragged him through the stone passage without a word. His breath came in harsh pulls, chest burning, throat raw from the run, but he forced himself to stay upright.He had made it. That thought alone carried him forward.Nightfang was behind him now. Whatever waited ahead, he had crossed into the one place that mattered to him.The inner chamber opened, and the air changed.Magnus Thorn stood at the far end of the room, exactly where Caius had imagined he would be. He hadn’t moved, hadn’t shifted, hadn’t even turned away as the guards released Caius and stepped aside.He watched.Caius straightened as best he could, wiping the sweat from his face, forcing his breath to steady. He would not stand before this man looking weak.“The

The wrong assumption

“Close the inner gates and keep them shut. No one leaves without my word.”Kael did not need to raise his voice for the command to take hold. The wolves nearest the entrance moved immediately, not out of fear, but out of habit shaped by a leader who did not repeat himself. The heavy doors began to slide into place as runners were pulled inside, their movements quick and disciplined, the last slipping through before the locks fell into place.“Rylan, I want every movement inside this territory accounted for. No one walks alone, no one drifts where they are not assigned.”“It’s already in motion,” Rylan answered, stepping closer to the table, his attention fixed on the map even as his tone carried a tension he did not bother to hide.I reached the doorway just as a pair of wolves passed me at speed, their focus forward, their silence telling me more than any explanation could have. Something had shifted while I was outside, and whatever it was had moved through the territory faster than

The Wrong Reaction

“Since when do you watch the kitchens like you’re guarding a border?”Faolan’s voice came from behind me, light but curious, and I didn’t turn immediately. I kept my eyes where they were, on the line of wolves moving in and out of the supply hall, each carrying something, each following orders that had been given not long ago.“Since today,” I said.She stepped up beside me, folding her arms as she followed my gaze. “You’re not even trying to pretend that’s normal.”“It isn’t.”That earned me a quiet look.Faolan wasn’t stupid. None of them were. She let the silence sit for a moment before asking, “What are you seeing?”I didn’t answer right away, because I wasn’t looking for something obvious.No one was arguing.No one was stepping out of line.Everything was moving the way it should.That was the problem.“Nothing,” I said finally.Faolan let out a short breath that sounded almost like a laugh. “You’ve been standing here for five minutes, staring like you’re about to catch someone

The Miscalculation

“You sent that message at first light.” Kael’s voice cut across the room before the wolf had even finished stepping inside. The runner froze where he stood, dust still clinging to his boots, chest rising too fast for someone who had only just delivered a report. “Yes, Alpha.” Kael didn’t move from the table. “Say it again.” The wolf swallowed. “I left at first light.” Rylan was already watching him closely, one hand braced against the edge of the map as if he could hold the entire territory in place by force alone. “And it arrived when?” Kael asked. “Just before dusk.” The room went quiet. Rylan’s head turned slightly, his attention sharpening. “That route doesn’t take that long.” “No,” Kael said. The word dropped flat. “Walk it,” Kael ordered. The wolf blinked. “Alpha?” “Walk the route,” Kael repeated, his gaze lifting now, fixing on him fully. “Every turn. Every stop. Every breath. Start again.” The runner hesitated, then nodded quickly. “I left the western post just

The breach

“The relay tower isn’t answering.”The words didn’t sound dramatic when they were said. That was what made them wrong.I turned before the wolf finished stepping into the courtyard, my attention locking onto him the moment I saw his face. He wasn’t panicked. He wasn’t shouting. But something in the way he held himself told me he already knew this wasn’t a delay that could be explained away.“What do you mean it isn’t answering?” I asked.“We called twice,” he said. “Nothing came back.”Donovan was already moving. “Who’s on duty?”“Second relay runner. Aron’s replacement.”That name landed hard enough to stay.Lilith didn’t wait for anything else. “We’re not standing here.”We moved without another word.The path to the relay cut straight through the heart of the territory, a stretch of ground that had never needed to prove it was safe because it always had been. You didn’t question the center. You questioned the edges.That belief ran with us.And with every step, it felt thinner.No

The Shift

“They didn’t touch the borders.”Rylan said it without preamble as I stepped into the council room, his voice steady but carrying an edge that had not been there the day before. The space had changed. Not louder, not chaotic, but tighter, as if every movement inside it now mattered more than it had before.Kael did not look up immediately. He stood at the table with both hands resting against the wood, his attention fixed on the map in front of him. The markers had been moved again, not scattered or rearranged without thought, but adjusted with a kind of restraint that suggested he had already discarded several options before settling on what remained.“They didn’t need to,” he said.The answer came without hesitation, but it was not dismissive. It carried weight, the kind that settled into the room and forced everyone listening to adjust their understanding before speaking again.Rylan stepped closer. “The relay tower was taken cleanly. No forced entry, no visible struggle, one wolf

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