Todos los capítulos de THE MATE THE ROGUE ALPHA WAS MEANT TO KILL: Capítulo 161 - Capítulo 170

Elara's POVThe corridor outside the principal's office was quieter than the rest of the building at this hour, most people in class or somewhere with a purpose. I was walking with my father's bundle tucked under my arm, still half in my head about the college conversation, when someone stepped into my path.I looked up.Michael.He had the look of someone who had been waiting, not for me specifically, but for anyone who might help him with whatever he needed. His eyes landed on me with the recognisable expression of a person whose problem was about to become someone else's."Hey," he said. "Have you seen Nyx?""She's in class."He nodded, then continued nodding in the way people did when they were about to ask for something."Could you go call her out for me? Just for a second."I looked at him. Then I looked down the corridor toward the classroom. Then back at him."Okay," I said. "One moment."I started walking, and the moment I turned away from him the thought arrived fully form

Elara's POVRavin looked at me for a moment, and something in his expression shifted the way it shifted when a question landed somewhere he wasn't expecting."Yes," he said. "I went.""Really?""I defiled the class and didn't complete it, but yes. I went."I stared at him. "You defiled it.""It wasn't my thing.""So you enrolled, went, decided it wasn't for you, and left?""More or less."I looked at him for a long moment, turning that over."Why?" I asked.He tilted his head slightly. "College isn't something I consider my area. I learn differently. The structure of it didn't suit how I operate." He said it simply, without any defensiveness in it, the way he said most things that were just facts about himself.I exhaled through my nose."First Leo this morning," I said, "telling me high school is probably the end of his formal education. And now you, telling me you defiled college and walked away." I looked at him. "Why is it always the guys?"Ravin laughed. A real one, which still d

Elara's POVThe walk back felt longer than the walk there.That was always how it went. The journey toward something moved faster than the journey away from it, and right now the forest stretched out in front of me with the particular unhelpfulness of trees that all looked the same in every direction.I pulled my jacket tighter and kept moving.The border was behind me, Darkhowl beyond it, and Ravin somewhere inside it already or close to. I kept my pace steady and let my mind settle back into the list of things that actually needed my attention, exams, the college question, the schedule that Freya had mentioned needing to check.I was maybe halfway back when something made me slow.Not a sound exactly. More like the absence of certain sounds that should have been there, birds, undergrowth movement, the small ordinary texture of a forest going about its business. It went quiet in a very specific way, and my wolf, closer to the surface than usual these days, noticed it before I consci

Elara's POV"Follow me," Leo said.I looked at him. "That's your opening?""Just follow me." He was already moving, and the tone of it was serious enough that I fell into step without arguing.Freya and Nyx appeared from the exam hall exit behind us, catching the movement and following without needing an explanation. That was the thing about the four of us by now. When one person moved with purpose, the others moved with them.Leo took us out of the main building, through the side corridor that led to the back grounds, and then out through the gate that opened onto the outer stretch of land beyond the school perimeter.He stopped and pointed down at the ground.I looked.Wolf prints. Scattered across the grass and the soft earth in clusters, overlapping, dozens of them covering a wide stretch. The kind of density that came from a significant number of wolves moving through the same space in a concentrated period of time. Not animals wandering. Wolves going somewhere with intent."I s

Elara's POVThe hall was smaller than I expected but the people inside it were not.I stepped through the doorway behind Ravin and my eyes moved across the room quickly, taking stock. Warriors. All of them, without exception, carrying that particular quality that distinguished trained wolves from untrained ones, a stillness in the body that had nothing to do with rest and everything to do with readiness. Tall, broad, the kind of physical presence that occupied a room fully simply by being in it.Men and women both, standing in groups, some talking quietly, some already watching the doorway. None of them faces I had ever seen before. All of them, I understood immediately, answering to Ravin.I had known, in an abstract way, that Darkhowl was not small. I knew Ravin had warriors, had people who followed him. But knowing it and standing in a room full of them were two entirely different things. What I felt standing there was something close to awe, at the sheer number of people who had