Alle Kapitel von My Secret Alpha Mate : Kapitel 21 – Kapitel 30

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

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

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

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

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