Todos los capítulos de THE MATE THE ROGUE ALPHA WAS MEANT TO KILL: Capítulo 141 - Capítulo 150

Elara's POVI smelled them before I saw them, Freya first. That familiar mix of cedar and something faintly floral, the kind of scent you stopped noticing after years of sharing a dorm room until the moment it came at you from the wrong direction in the wrong place. Then Nyx, earthy and warm, close behind.I slowed at the tree line and shifted back before I stepped through. My clothes were still on, barely, the way they always were when the shift happened fast and with enough intention behind it. I moved forward on two legs, pushing branches aside, following the pull of their scents deeper into the dark.And then I saw them.They were tied to separate trees, a few feet apart, rope looped around their wrists and across their shoulders, holding them upright against the bark. Not unconscious. Not bleeding. But still in a way that made the hairs on the back of my neck rise, their heads bowed low, their wolves pressed down by something I couldn't name from here.I moved toward them without

Elara's POVThey moved the moment the brothers stepped back.Freya crossed the distance between us first, her arms coming around me so fast and so hard that the impact nearly knocked me sideways.I felt her grip tighten, her hands fisting into the back of my jacket, her whole body carrying a tension she hadn't let herself release until this exact second.She held on like she was checking that I was real. Like standing there and breathing and not being gone was something she needed to confirm with her hands before she could believe it.Then Nyx was there.She pressed into my other side and the sound she made was small and broken, something that came out of her chest before she could catch it.And then she was crying, properly, the kind she never let herself do in front of people. Her shoulders shook against me, her face pressed into my shoulder like she wanted to disappear into the warmth of it.I didn't say anything. I just held her tighter.I held them both.The back of my throat ach

Elara's POVWe walked, that was the strangest part. Not the fact that I was captive, not the dark pressing in on every side, not the unfamiliar territory unfolding ahead of me with every step.It was the walking. The almost ordinary quality of it, four people moving through the trees together, feet meeting earth, branches parting quietly around us, like we were on our way somewhere unremarkable.Like nothing about this was strange at all.Lyris moved slightly ahead of me. The brothers flanked me on either side, not touching, not crowding, just present in the way that made it clear there was nowhere else to go and no point in testing the fact.Questions were already turning in my mind. I sorted through everything Lyris said back at the border and everything she chose not to say, looking for the edges of what was actually happening, the full shape of it underneath the surface.I decided I might as well just ask."What exactly are you up to, Lyris?"She didn't stop walking. She didn't ev

Ravin's POVThe classroom had the usual morning noise to it when I walked in. Chairs scraping back. Bags hitting the floor. Voices dropping as the teacher settled at the front and the room gradually remembered it was supposed to be paying attention.I moved to my seat and sat down.My eyes swept the room the way they always did, quick and automatic, taking stock before anything more deliberate kicked in. It was a habit I couldn't switch off and hadn't tried to. Freya was in her seat. Nyx beside her. Leo further along on the other side, already leaning back with the relaxed posture of someone who knew how to look like he was listening without actually committing to it.The space next to Freya where Elara usually sat was empty.I noted it and kept my expression where it was. One empty seat was not information. She could be running late, could be anywhere, and there were a dozen ordinary reasons a person missed the start of a class that had nothing to do with anything worth acting on ye

Ravin's POVFreya didn't move from where she was standing.I turned to go and she was still there, arms crossed, weight settled, the posture of someone who was not finished and was not pretending to be. She was watching me with those sharp eyes of hers, the ones that missed very little, and she was very clearly not moving until she said what she needed to say.From Freya, that meant something worth stopping for.I waited."There's something I need to say before you leave," she said. Her voice was controlled, the specific control of someone who chose it deliberately rather than naturally. A sharpness sat underneath it that hadn't been there a minute ago."Say it.""This whole thing feels wrong." She held my gaze steadily. "Not just Lyris taking us. The way they set it up. The way they let Nyx and me go without any kind of fight." She paused, working through it. "They targeted Elara specifically, and then they let us walk away. Both of us, unharmed. No pursuit, no threat, nothing." He