All Chapters of My Secret Alpha Mate : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

62 Chapters

Chapter 21: Between Two Fires

Louve's POVMy phone buzzed twice on the passenger seat before I even made it back to the main road.I glanced at it at the next red light and felt my brow pull together.Selin.I answered on the third buzz."Hey," I said."Hey yourself." Her voice was lower than usual, stripped of the sharp wit she carried like armor. "Are you still in the city?""Yes. Why?"A pause short."I need to see you. Tonight, if possible. I know it's late but…”"Where?" I asked. No hesitation.Another pause, this one softer. Like she hadn't expected me to agree that quickly.“But you need to rest Selin, you need to get better.” I said as I was feeling concerned. “Be at home for now.” "The coffee place on Morrow Lane. The one with the green awning. You know it?""I'll find it," I said. "Twenty minutes."I hung up and made a U-turn.The café was nearly empty when I arrived. One old man in the corner was nursing a newspaper and a mug. The barista behind the counter barely looked up. The green awning flapped so

Chapter 22: My Next Move

Louve POVIt was nearly midnight when my phone rang again. I was still in the car. Hadn't moved. My eyes were fixed on the street ahead, seeing nothing, thinking about everything.The number that lit up the screen wasn't saved.But I knew it.Something in the base of my chest recognised it before my brain caught up as the way a nerve responds to heat before the mind registers pain. I stared at it for two full rings.Then I answered."Louve."His voice. Low, steady, carrying the particular weight of a man who had decided to say something difficult and was going to say it clearly regardless.I closed my eyes briefly before opening them."Lynx."There was a short silence. The kind that breathes."I wasn't sure you'd pick up," he said."I almost didn't," I replied honestly."There's something I need to tell you," he said. "Before tomorrow night. I didn't want you hearing it secondhand."I sat up slightly. "What is it?"A pause. Long enough that I could hear the quality of the silence on hi

Chapter 23: STUCK

Selin's POVI had a list.That was the whole plan. A short, practical, completely unromantic list of things I needed before I packed a bag and moved myself into Louve's family mansion. The woman whose family viewed me as a convenience at best.Toiletries. A decent set of pajamas that didn't have a hole in the left knee. Something to read. Maybe some snacks, because I was not about to show up somewhere new and be entirely at the mercy of other people's food choices.I just want to get something simple. Fast and out.The city's main superstore was massive. The kind that sells everything from motor oil to luxury bedding and somehow makes it feel inevitable that you'll spend forty minutes wandering before you find what you came for. I grabbed a basket at the entrance and moved with purpose, ticking things off mentally as I went.I was doing well. All focused and normal.And then I turned the corner into the personal care aisle, and just like that, I almost walked directly into him.The ma

Chapter 24: My Hidden Abilities Unleashed

Selin POV I felt so relieved upon arriving at my apartment. I immediately placed what I had bought from the superstore on the ground. It was already getting late. I rushed to open the door. And as soon as I entered, the cool air welcomed me in. I walked straight to my room, placing the bags on the bed before heading to the bathroom to have a shower. Later on I was done having a shower, and I had changed my clothes. The silence in the house felt wrong. Not the normal kind but the quiet that settles after a long day or the stillness that comes with exhaustion.I began to unpack the shopping bags. I had been in the middle of packing. A bag half-open on the floor, a stack of clothes on the chair, and a mug of tea going cold on the desk. I had been moving slowly, a bit distracted, my mind still catching on things."Get it together," I muttered under my breath.Louve words echoed faintly in my head. We don't react. We move first.I let out a quiet breath. "Yeah, easier said than done." I

Chapter 25: The Girl I Can't Walk Away From

Austin POV The room was too quiet. The kind that settles after something violent, something unnatural. The kind that leaves your ears ringing and your instincts screaming that it’s not over.I stood in the middle of the wreckage, Selin in my arms. Her body felt too light. That was the first thing that hit me.Too light and too still.“Selin…” I called, my voice lower than I expected.There was no response.My grip tightened slightly as I adjusted her against me, careful not to press against her ribs. Her head rested against my chest, her breathing shallow but steady.She’s alive, and that was enough for now. I exhaled slowly, forcing my pulse down, forcing my thoughts into order. The apartment was a mess: shattered glass, broken furniture, the lingering echo of something I couldn’t explain.Something I had never seen before.My gaze dropped to her hands.They were normal now.But I knew what I saw.The change. The darkness. The way the air bent around her like it was responding to

Chapter 26: Something More Than Duty

Austin POV Three of them.I counted three before any of them moved, and I already knew this wasn't going to be clean.Panthers never were.They didn't come at you the way wolves did, with that low warning energy and that chest-deep growl that at least gave you a second to prepare. No. Panthers just... appeared. One moment there was nothing, and then there wasn't nothing anymore, and your body was already behind before your mind caught up.The first one came through the window.I met him halfway.My elbow caught his jaw on the way in, and I didn't wait to see how he landed. The second was already moving from my right, going for the arm that was holding Selin, and something about that—specifically, the fact that he went for her first—made the hit I gave him less controlled than it should have been. He hit the wall hard. The plaster cracked.I pulled back.“Breathe. Stay sharp.”The third one hadn't moved yet. He was just standing there, watching. That's how I knew he was the one I need

Chapter 27: Loud instincts

Louve POVShe wasn't picking up.I stood in the middle of my room, phone pressed to my ear, listening to it ring for the fourth time, and counted. Then voicemail. Selin's voice, dry and unhelpful as always, told me to leave a message or not; her choice.I hung up. I tried calling her again.Voicemail.I lowered the phone slowly and looked at it. The screen stared back at me, unhelpful and indifferent. I told myself it was nothing. Selin went to bed early sometimes. Selin forgot to charge her phone sometimes. Selin was unpredictable in the way that all people were unpredictable, and the fact that she wasn't picking up meant nothing, probably statistically, in the broad landscape of all the times. Selin had not picked up for perfectly boring reasons.I called again.Yet it was still voicemail. I set the phone down on the desk, pulled it back, and set it down again. I walked to the window and stood there with my arms folded, looking at the city below the way you looked at something when

CHAPTER 28: The morning after everything

Selin's POVIt started from the ceiling. The ceiling was wrong. That was the first thing I registered as my eyes barely opened. I noticed it just from the ceiling: the wrong shade, texture, even the height. It was not my ceiling. I lay there for a moment and let my brain catch up with the rest of me. It took longer than I would have liked.The room came into focus slowly, the way things do when your body is rationing energy and sight is apparently not the priority. Clean walls. A window with the curtain half-drawn, pale morning light pressing through the gap. A chair in the corner. A glass of water on the small table beside the bed that I had not put there.I tried to sit up. Then the headache introduced itself immediately and with great enthusiasm. I made a sound I would not repeat if I were in a company meeting and pressed my hand against my temple, breathing through it until the sharp edge dulled to something manageable. My whole body felt wrong. It ached badly but was not injured

Chapter 29: APPEARANCES

Lynx POVI didn't plan for this. I never did. I did not want to be here. I want to make that clear from the beginning. Every mile of the road I had covered to get to this gate, every hour of the drive through the northern territory with nothing but dark highway and my own thoughts for company, had been powered entirely by one thing.Louve had told me to come.That was it. That was the whole reason. And the fact that it was enough of a reason to get me here, standing in front of the iron gates of my family's estate at half past ten in the morning in a suit I hadn't worn in two years and a mood that could generously be described as contained, said a great deal about how far gone I was when it came to that woman.I had thought about her words the entire drive.You cannot disrespect your parents like that. Not publicly. Not right now. Show up, be respectful, and handle it through proper channels.She had been right. I hated it. But she had been right. So here I was.The gates opened befor

Chapter 30: The Anonymous Messenger

Louve POV The city was quieter in the mornings.Not silent, Madrid was never truly silent, but softer somehow. The traffic had not fully awakened yet, and the air carried the faint scent of rain from sometime during the night. I stood outside the café across from the east district market, adjusting the sleeve of my coat while staring absentmindedly at the line of cars moving down the street.My mind had been restless since dawn.Ever since Lynx left for the northern estate yesterday, I had not been able to think clearly. I hated that he affected me this way. Hated how one message from him could ruin my concentration for hours. Hated how twelve years had passed and somehow my heart still reacted to him like it belonged entirely to him.Which, unfortunately, it probably did. I exhaled slowly and began walking again.The plan this morning had been simple. Visit Rosa. Bring her the books I promised last week. Stay for maybe an hour before returning home to figure out what exactly was unfo

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