Alle Kapitel von THE MATE THE ROGUE ALPHA WAS MEANT TO KILL: Kapitel 91 – Kapitel 100

Elara's POV Freya appeared in the dorm room doorway with the particular expression she wore when she was delivering a message she found deeply amusing. She leaned against the frame, took a moment to let the expression do its work, and then delivered it."Ravin's outside. He wants you."Nyx looked up from her bed with raised eyebrows, and Freya held up a hand before she could say anything."He sent me, before you ask. Which is not the same as sending a messenger. I am a friend who was walking past at the wrong moment and got recruited into this against my will."I was already reaching for my cardigan. I pulled it on, grabbed my phone from the desk, and left them to whatever commentary they were building between themselves, the dorm noise fading behind me as I pushed through the door and stepped outside into the morning air.Ravin was exactly where Freya said he would be, leaning against the wall beside the entrance with his arms folded and that quiet watchful stillness he always carri

Ravin's POV We walked back from the oak tree at an easy pace, the morning settling properly around us now, the pale gold in the sky filling out into something warmer as the early hour gave way to the start of a regular school day.Students were beginning to move through the grounds in larger numbers, bags over shoulders, conversations threading through the air around us, and I kept my hand in Elara's and let the walk take its time.When the Ravencroft dorm building came into view I slowed, and she slowed with me, and we stopped just short of the entrance where it was still quiet enough to talk without the building traffic swallowing everything.There was something I needed to tell her, and I turned it over in my head one more time before I spoke, settling on the version that gave her what she needed without pulling her into more than she could act on right now."I have to leave for a few days," I said.She looked up at me. "Leave?""Pack business. Something that needs to be dealt wit

Elara's POV I sat through the entire biology class without taking a single useful note.The words coming from the front of the room moved through the air and disappeared somewhere before they reached me, and I let them go without chasing them because my mind was somewhere else entirely. It was fixed on one thing and unwilling to be redirected, no matter how many times I told myself to pay attention and at least look like I was present.I kept my eyes forward, my expression neutral, and I waited.The moment the bell rang I was already moving.Lyris was two rows ahead of me, gathering her things at the easy, relaxed pace she always moved at, and I crossed the distance between us before she made it to the door. I stepped into her path just enough that stopping was the only natural option, and she looked up at me with the small open expression she always wore."Hey," she said. "You heading to—""I need to talk to you," I said, holding my ground in the doorway. "Right now about somethin

Elara's POV The day before the Silver Moon Dance carried a particular feeling that I couldn't quite describe but recognised immediately.It was in the way everyone moved through the school slightly faster than usual, like the evening ahead was already pulling at people and the day in between was just something to get through first.Conversations in the corridors kept circling back to the same things, the same questions passing between people at lockers and stairwells and the space outside classrooms. What are you wearing. Who are you going with. Have you seen what they're doing to the main hall.By the time afternoon arrived and the last class emptied out, most of the girls in Ravencroft were already back in the dorm and the energy in the building shifted into something warm and anticipatory and thoroughly infectious.Freya was sitting on the floor doing her nails when the knock came at the door, and Nyx called out for whoever it was to come in without looking up from the book she wa

Lyris POVThe drinks table was busy enough that nobody was paying attention to anything except what was directly in front of them.That was the thing about crowded rooms. Everyone was so absorbed in their own conversations, their own glasses, their own versions of the evening, that the space between people became its own kind of cover.I learned that a long time ago, and I used it without thinking now, the way you used any skill that became second nature.I stood beside Elara at the edge of the table and kept the conversation light, laughing at the right moments, letting my eyes move across the room in the way I always did, the kind of sweep that looked like casual observation and was anything but.I was looking for the right moment and the right gap, the way I always looked, quietly and without drawing any attention to the fact that I was looking at all.That was when I saw them.A junior student was moving through the crowd with a tray, two cups sitting apart from the others on the