Alle Kapitel von THE MATE THE ROGUE ALPHA WAS MEANT TO KILL: Kapitel 61 – Kapitel 70

Elara's POVLunch with Ravin had become one of those things I looked forward to without admitting how much, that quiet pocket of the day where everything else stopped being loud for a little while and it was just us sitting together with food neither of us was really paying attention to because the conversation always ended up being more interesting than whatever was on the plate.He had been back two days and already things felt normal again, that specific kind of normal that only existed when the right person was in the room, and I had been enjoying it enough that I hadn't pushed about anything pack related since he got back, just let him settle back in without making it into a thing.He started talking about what had been keeping him, the meetings, the disputes, the general chaos of managing a pack from a distance while also trying to maintain a cover at Draven, and I listened properly the way I always did when he talked about that side of his life, because it mattered to him and b

Ravin's POV I didn't say anything for a moment, just stood there and let what she had said settle properly before I responded to any of it.She hadn't come to Draven because of the school. She hadn't come because of the curriculum or the reputation or any of the reasons people usually ended up here.She had come because of a name she had found somewhere in the buried history of a bloodline most people didn't even know existed, because she had been carrying the same weight I had been carrying and had run out of places to take it, and because she had made the same choice I had made and needed to know if that choice had consequences she hadn't felt yet.I understood that more than she probably realized."Tell me about Elias."Lyris looked at the ground for just a second before she looked back up, and when she did her voice was steady but there was something behind it that had nothing to do with the composure she wore everywhere else.Something that had been sitting with her for a long t

Elara's POVFreya was talking about Rory again, this was not unusual. Freya had been talking about Rory with the same level of enthusiasm since the day she officially started dating him, and somewhere along the way I had stopped being surprised by the specific things she said and just settled into the general warmth of listening to someone who was genuinely happy about something, which was its own kind of nice.He had texted her something thoughtful that morning, had remembered something she mentioned in passing two weeks ago and brought it up completely out of nowhere like it mattered to him, which apparently it did. He had looked at her in a way across the classroom that made her feel like the only person in the room."That's really sweet," I said, and meant it."He is really sweet," Freya said, hugging her knees to her chest on the bed, "like genuinely, actually sweet, not in a performative way where he's trying to be something, just naturally, like it comes easily to him.""That'

Elara's POVLyris was talking to Leo.I noticed it on the walk to school, catching a glimpse of the two of them ahead of us near the entrance, Leo doing that thing he did where he leaned slightly forward when something interested him, Lyris talking with that easy confidence she carried everywhere she went like it was just part of how she was built. They looked like they had been talking for a while, comfortable, not the stilted conversation of two people who had just met but something already moving past that stage, already finding a rhythm."What do you think that's about?" Freya said, following my gaze."No idea," I said, which was true, and also the thing I told myself every time I noticed Lyris in a situation I didn't fully understand, which was becoming a regular habit at this point."She works fast," Freya said, more observation than judgment."Leo makes it easy," Nyx said simply, and we kept walking toward the entrance without making a thing of it.Classes moved the way they m

Elara's POVFreya came back to the dorm with a different energy about her.I noticed it the moment she walked through the door, that particular glow that had nothing to do with the time of day or how much sleep she had gotten, that specific kind of quiet happiness that settled on a person after something significant had happened and they hadn't fully processed it yet. She looked lighter somehow, like something she had been carrying had been set down somewhere and she hadn't picked it back up yet. Even the way she moved into the room was different, slower, more settled in herself, like she was still somewhere in her head replaying whatever had just happened and didn't mind being there.She dropped her bag on the floor, sat down on her bed, looked at me directly, and said it plainly."I just had sex with Rory."I smiled.Freya looked at my smile. Then she looked at it more carefully, studying it the way she studied things when she was trying to work something out, reading it for what i