All Chapters of Mated To Three Alphas: Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

Matteo POVI did not sleep, I sat on the back porch at two in the morning with my coffee going cold and watched the mango tree and thought about a six-year-old boy handed to a research faction in exchange for pack supremacy.I thought about my own father, who had been a difficult and lonely man who understood power considerably better than he understood people. I thought about how much of this entire story was fathers trading children for outcomes and calling it something else.Annalyn, whose mother sent her away in a midnight car to protect her from what she was. Lucas, carrying a blood oath from seventeen that he believed was a duty and was actually a transaction. Calix, who watched his father lose himself to a Luna bond and decided, early and privately, that attachment was a specific kind of danger he could not afford.Ezra, on the floor inside right now, with marks on his chest that were procedural rather than decorative and a hospital bracelet he had not removed.Every person con

Annalyn POVGrief was not what I expected it to feel like.I had braced for something sharp and immediate. What arrived instead was weather, variable and pervasive, present in the texture of every ordinary action. I noticed it in the kitchen at seven in the morning while I measured rice into the pot.I noticed it in the way my hands moved through the motions without needing instruction from my brain. My mother stood beside me and neither of us spoke and that silence was its own complete language.The whole house moved carefully. Footsteps quieter than usual. Doors eased open rather than pushed. Voices kept low without anyone deciding to keep them that way.Selah sat at the kitchen table with the tea Isabella had made her, both hands around the cup, looking out at the street with the expression of someone taking the full, unhurried measure of a freedom they had been waiting a very long time to feel. I watched her from the stove and thought about what Lola Nena had said.Selah earned a