The Alpha's Fake Mate のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

🌑ELARA AND LUCIAN 🌑 The room changed the instant he entered it.Not a sound, not a gesture just a shift in the atmosphere, the way pressure drops before a storm. Every person felt it without knowing why, conversations cutting off mid-sentence, postures straightening, eyes dropping to the floor.Lucian crossed the threshold and swept the room once.His gaze landed on Elara first. On the floor, hands pressed flat against the tile, books scattered around her in a wide arc. A split at the corner of her lip. She was breathing in the careful way of someone holding themselves together through sheer refusal to break in front of an audience that had already decided she was entertainment.His gaze moved to Aiden. Just once. Long enough.Then he walked to his desk at the far end of the room, picked up his car keys, and left without a word.The door clicked shut behind him.The room exhaled.Someone laughed, nervous at first, then looser and that was all it took. The tension dissolved into som

🌑ELARA🌑Saturday arrived like a small mercy.Elara was up before the sun, moving through the quiet house with the practiced efficiency of someone who had learned early that mornings belonged to work. Her parents were already gone by the time she came downstairs ,both worked weekends, which meant the house was hers, and the house being hers meant the responsibilities were too.She cleaned. She cooked. She moved from room to room with her mind carefully blank, which was the only way she knew how to get through tasks when her thoughts were trying to pull her somewhere she didn't want to go.It worked, mostly.Then she sat down with her tea and it stopped working.The week replayed itself without her permission, Julie's voice carrying across the classroom, Aiden's face when he'd looked at her like she was a problem he was bored of, the floor of the Business Administration block, cold and hard beneath her palms. The sound of laughter that had nothing kind in it.She wrapped both hands ar

🌑LUCIAN & ELARA 🌑 He had not planned this.That was the thing Lucian kept coming back to, even as his feet carried him across the courtyard with the kind of certainty his mind hadn't caught up to yet. He had felt it from the parking lot her fear, specific and sharp, cutting through the ordinary noise of a Monday morning like a frequency only he was tuned to.He had told Miguel to park the car.Miguel had said something. He hadn't heard what.He was already moving.The crowd parted without being asked to. It always did.Lucian walked through it until he reached the center, where Aiden stood with his foot on a scattered page and his friends arranged around him like an audience that had forgotten it could leave. He took in the scene in a single sweep, the papers on the ground, the phones already raised, the tight controlled stillness of Elara's face that he recognized now as the expression she wore when she was holding something together through sheer will.He looked at Aiden.Aiden l

🌑 LUCIAN AND ELARA 🌑Lucian didn't expect the friction he felt as he grabbed her arm. His wolf stayed calm, but his heart gave out a strange, unfamiliar beat. He guessed Elara felt it too, because she turned and her eyes locked onto his but before he could hold her gaze, she yanked her arm free."Do you want to forcefully drag me to lunch with you, or is this a performative act?"Lucian, still staring at her, said, "It's just lunch. Don't make a big deal out of it." With that, he grabbed her hand again, and Elara had no choice but to follow him.The cafeteria table felt too exposed, even tucked into its corner. Not that it mattered people were still watching.Elara sat down slowly, placing her drink in front of her like it might betray her if she moved too fast. Miguel dropped into the seat across from her immediately, looking far too comfortable for someone who was technically an intruder in this entire situation. Lucian sat beside her calm, controlled, quiet.That silence didn't l

The next morning, Elara arrived at school running on little more than determination and caffeine.She'd spent most of the previous evening at the hospital with her parents, and it showed. Her father was recovering that was the good news. The bad news was that she was exhausted.As she walked through the campus gates, she braced herself for the usual whispers.Surprisingly, they weren't as bad as she expected.The stares were still there. The occasional whisper too. But nobody approached her. Nobody blocked her path. Nobody made rude comments.And when she spotted Aiden across the courtyard, he looked away the moment their eyes met.Elara almost laughed.Almost.Apparently being linked to Lucian Voss had its advantages.The thought annoyed her more than it should have.She adjusted her bag and continued toward her department."Good morning."Elara nearly jumped. She turned and found Lucian walking beside her as though he'd been there the entire time."Do you enjoy appearing out of nowh