Todos los capítulos de The Alpha's Curvy Mate : Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

"What are you?" Scarlett asked again, louder this time, when he didn't answer the first time fast enough.Draven stood perfectly still, every instinct in him screaming to close the distance she'd just put between them, and every ounce of control he had left telling him that closing it right now would be the worst possible thing he could do."Say something." Her voice cracked on the second word. "Your eyes turned gold, Draven. People's eyes don't do that. Explain it or I swear I will walk to that road and start walking until someone stops to pick me up.""Don't.""Then talk."He opened his mouth twice before anything came out, the wolf pressing hard beneath his skin, agitated by her fear and making every second of restraint harder."I'm not going to lie to you," he said finally. "But I need you to let me finish before you decide what to do.""I'm not promising you that.""That's fair." His voice had gone rough, stripped of its usual control. "I'm not human, Scarlett. I haven't been hum

Draven hadn't moved from the hallway in three hours, and the wolf hadn't stopped pushing against his control for a single minute of it.He'd expected relief once the secret was out. Instead the opposite had happened. For weeks he'd poured every ounce of discipline into keeping the truth locked down, and now that the truth was loose, the wolf seemed to think the rest of the leash should go with it. Every creak of the floorboards on the other side of her door registered like a small violence. Every hour of silence made the need to stay near her worse instead of better.He'd spent years learning how to want something and not take it. Eight of those years had been spent grieving a woman quietly enough that no one ever saw the wolf's hunger underneath it. This felt different, sharper, less like grief and more like a debt finally coming due.Adrian found him still standing there just past dawn."You look like a man who hasn't slept.""I don't need to sleep.""You need to do something other

Scarlett found Draven in his study, not the kitchen. A map of the territory was spread across the desk, red marks scattered near the northern border, and a stack of messages he hadn't answered yet sitting untouched beside his hand.He didn't look up right away. "You should be resting.""I couldn't." She crossed to the desk, studying the map upside down. "What are the marks?""Sightings. Voss's people, crossing near the border twice this week." His jaw was tight, focused entirely on the paper in front of him, a version of Draven she hadn't seen since the reveal. Not the man who stood outside her door all night. The Alpha. "The neighboring packs aren't calling this meeting because of curiosity. They're calling it because Voss's people are testing how far they can push into territory that isn't theirs, and they want to know if I still have control of it.""So this was never really about me.""It's about both." He finally looked up, and for a moment the fatigue behind his eyes was impossi

"Who sent this?" Scarlett asked, already reaching for her seatbelt as Draven pulled out of the lot too fast for a casual drive."Adrian." Draven's phone buzzed again before she'd finished the word. He read it one-handed, then tightened his grip on the phone. "He's had someone watching Ethan's house since the night we realized Reyes was connected to him.""Since when?""Since I stopped assuming Ethan was only a victim in this." Draven's eyes stayed on the road, hands steady despite the speed. "I didn't tell you because there was nothing to report. Until tonight.""What happened?""Adrian's man lost visual around eleven. Lights on, car in the driveway, nobody answering the door." He glanced at her. "That's not proof of anything yet. People go quiet for a dozen reasons.""You don't believe that.""No."They reached the house in under fifteen minutes. Scarlett recognized the porch light, the same one that had flickered every few nights because Ethan had never gotten around to fixing it. I

"Adrian's ready to scout the address," Draven said, pocketing his phone. "He wants thirty minutes before either of us moves.""Then we have thirty minutes." Scarlett crossed her arms. "Which means you have thirty minutes to explain something you've been avoiding since the pack meeting.""I'm not avoiding anything right now. I'm planning.""You're doing both. You can do it while you talk."Draven exhaled, his shoulders still tight from the last hour. "What do you want to know?""The mark." Scarlett held his gaze. "You said it strengthens the bond. Makes it easier to sense each other. If something happens tonight, if I go with you and things go wrong, would it make a difference? Would it keep me safer?"Draven's mouth pressed into a hard line. "Why are you asking me that now?""Because we're about to walk into whatever's waiting at that address, and I want to understand every option before we do. Not because I've decided anything."Draven was quiet long enough that she wondered if he wa