Lahat ng Kabanata ng Married to My Rival Alpha(MM Romance): Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

Elliot POVI had learned a long time ago not to want things that could be taken. Hockey was the one exception I had allowed myself, and I had spent six years making sure no one ever found out why it cost me more than it cost anyone else.The arena was loud enough to shake the bones in my body, but all I could hear was my own breathing.Harsh inside my helmet. Too fast. Too uneven. The scoreboard burned at the edge of my vision: one minute left, one goal behind, the championship hanging on a blade's width of hope.This was the moment I had built my entire life around.It was also the kind of moment men like Sebastian Wolfe were born to steal.I didn't need to search for him. Even across a rink crowded with flashing lights and chaos, I found him. Center ice. Broad shoulders. Dark jersey. That arrogant, easy posture of a man who had never once doubted the world would bend for him.Somehow, that made him worse.I tightened my grip on my stick. Sebastian Wolfe made hatred feel too close to

Elliot POVBy the time my teammates came back into the locker room, I had my expression under control.That was the only part of me I controlled. My skin felt wrong in a way that had nothing to do with exhaustion, like a hand pressed flat against a crack in a dam, the pressure building steadily on the other side. I kept my head down, peeled off my gear, and answered no one.I made myself look like a man too furious about a loss to talk. That part, at least, was true.The guys muttered sympathy. Someone cursed Sebastian's entire bloodline. Tonight it barely reached me.My mind stayed trapped inside that final exchange.A deal is a deal. Tonight, you belong to me.So why hadn't it felt like a joke?Night had settled hard over the city by the time I left the arena. My apartment was close. I let myself in and locked the door.I went to the bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror. Dark hair, freckles, the kind of face people underestimated until I gave them a reason not to. I had work

Elliot POV The world went silent. Sebastian knew. Maybe not everything, but enough. It was there in the stillness of his body, in the way the air between us shifted from dangerous to something that had no name yet. He had stopped playing. "I don't know what you're talking about," I said. "You're a bad liar when you're scared." "I'm not scared." "That's your biggest lie tonight." Anger snapped through me fast enough to steady my hands. "You don't know a damn thing about me." "No," he said. "But I know this isn't normal. The second I touched you, my whole body recognized something my brain hadn't caught up to. That doesn't happen with Betas." I said nothing. Sebastian took one step. I backed up before I could stop myself, spine hitting cold brick. He planted one hand beside my shoulder, not touching, just trapping, and the cedar and smoke of him hit me like a wall I had been walking toward for two years without knowing it. Six years of triple doses. Six years of perfect disc