Todos los capítulos de THE MATE THE ROGUE ALPHA WAS MEANT TO KILL: Capítulo 151 - Capítulo 160

Elara's POVThey came for me without warning.Two of them, no words, just hands on my arms and the chains at my wrists pulling tight as they dragged me upright and moved me out of the room. I kept my footing and let them lead because fighting blind was worse than waiting. I needed to see where this was going first.The clearing opened up ahead of us, wide and sky-lit, and I felt the shift in the atmosphere before I could make sense of what I was seeing. Too many bodies arranged with too much purpose. The specific quiet that came right before something broke open.I scanned the space quickly.Then I saw him and everything else stopped mattering.He was standing across the clearing, and the distance between us felt like a thousand miles and like nothing at all at the same time. He looked exactly as he always looked when things were serious. Still. Controlled. Coiled. The kind of stillness that came from someone holding enormous force very deliberately in check.But his eyes found me th

Elara's POVLyris spoke like she couldn't hold it back anymore."His bloodline carries a curse." Her voice was steady, almost clinical. "Every Alpha before him lived under the same condition. He was supposed to kill his fated mate during her first shift. That was the window. The only time it could be done." She paused for a beat, like she was organising something in her own mind. "He didn't do it. And the price for that is losing his wolf."Nobody moved.The clearing sat in a silence that felt different from any silence before it."I knew about the curse for a long time," Lyris continued, her eyes moving briefly to Kol before settling on the open clearing again. "But I thought it was a myth. He didn't lose his wolf when it was supposed to happen, so I assumed the curse was dormant. That it weakened over generations, or that it simply didn't apply anymore." A pause. "I was wrong. The curse was just delayed. Something triggered it now."She stopped there. Didn't finish the thought ab

Elara's POVThe forest thinned slowly around us and the sounds of Vespera faded behind me until there was nothing left of them, just trees and the dark and Ravin's weight against my side and the rhythm of my own footsteps eating up the ground.I didn't slow down until I felt the territory shift beneath me.Different air. Different land. The particular quality of a place that belonged to someone specific, and I knew it before I consciously recognised it because my wolf knew it first. Darkhowl. We were at the edges of it.I was still trying to work out what to do next when someone called out."Hey."I turned. Sable was moving toward us through the trees, and the moment her eyes landed on Ravin the alertness in her face sharpened into something else entirely. She read the situation in about two seconds. Ravin's state. My arms around him. The fact that I was standing at the edge of Darkhowl territory with him and no one else."Cord." Sharp. Not panicked, but the kind of voice that didn't

Ravin's POVGetting off the bed took more effort than I wanted to admit.Sable saw it and didn't say anything, which I appreciated. Cord moved to the doorway to give me space and also didn't say anything, which I appreciated even more. I got myself upright, worked through the first wave of pain at my ribs, and nodded."Show me."The war room was at the far end of the Darkhowl building, a space I sat in for more decisions than I could count. Maps on the walls. Territory lines marked in detail. Information pinned and updated the way I always insisted it be, current, accurate, nothing older than a week left without a review.Sable spread something across the table as I came in."It started two days ago," she said, pointing. "This pack here, the Ashfen, they stopped responding to the frequency we use for inter-pack communication. Cord went to check on it this morning."Cord picked up the thread without being prompted. "Ashfen Alpha is gone. The pack is still there but the structure has be

Lyris's POVKol's private quarters were quieter than the rest of the pack.That was by design. Everything about the way Kol built his space was intentional, the distance from the main structures, the thick walls, the kind of deliberate quiet that said whoever was inside this room chose to be unreachable. I had been in here enough times to stop noticing it, but tonight the stillness felt different. Earned.He poured two glasses and handed one to me without asking if I wanted it."You delivered exactly what you promised," he said.I took the glass. "I told you I would.""You did." He turned and looked at me with that particular expression he wore when something went exactly the way he planned and he was allowing himself to acknowledge it. Not gloating. Just satisfied, deeply and quietly satisfied. "The curse activating in the middle of the fight. Ravin standing in that clearing without a wolf." He shook his head slightly. "Better than I anticipated.""The timing surprised me too," I ad