All Chapters of The Mate Who KIlled Her Family: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Chapter 11ELENAFor a moment, I couldn't hear the howling.I couldn't hear anything at all except that voice in my head. Soft. Smooth. Almost gentle.Leave no one alive. Especially the girl.Silas.Kade's beta. Kade's oldest friend. The man who smiled at me at the gate and told me nobody would hurt me here. The man who sat at Kade's right hand at every meal.He burned my village. He killed my mother.And he had just walked away into the crowd like nothing happened.I turned my head and searched the faces around the ring. I found him easily. He was standing near the front, his arms folded, his bandaged hand tucked under his elbow. When he saw me looking, he smiled and gave me a small nod.I wanted to scream his name. I wanted to point at him and tell the whole pack what he was.But who would believe me? A human girl who couldn't even remember the last few days of her own life. A human girl who ran away on her first morning. They would laugh. And Silas would smile his kind smile and sa

Chapter 13KADEI don't remember crossing the ring.One moment I was standing outside the stones with my hand pressed against my bleeding side. The next moment I was in the air, and the world around me was a blur of moonlight and screaming faces.I only saw two things. Elena, turning her head too slowly. And Vera, her jaws wide open, her teeth an inch from the back of Elena's neck.I hit Vera in midair.My shoulder slammed into her ribs, and we flew sideways together, past Elena, out of the ring. I felt Vera's teeth snap shut on nothing. Then we hit the ground and rolled, and I was on top of her.I didn't shift. I didn't need to. I grabbed her by the thick fur of her neck with both hands, lifted her off the ground, and threw her.She hit the stone wall at the edge of the clearing so hard the old stones cracked. She yelped once. Then her body twisted and cracked, and the fur pulled back into her skin, and she was human again. She slid down the wall and landed in a heap at the bottom, g

Chapter 15ELENAThe first thing I saw was a bundle of dried herbs hanging from the ceiling.Lavender. Sage. Something with small yellow flowers that I didn't know. They swayed a little in the air from an open window. For one sweet, confused second, I thought I was home. I thought I was lying on the old cot in my mother's kitchen, and she was about to walk in with a cup of honey tea and tell me I had slept too long.Then I tried to sit up, and the pain in my side pulled me back down with a cry.I wasn't home. There was no home anymore.I turned my head slowly. I was in a small room with white walls and a wooden floor. Shelves full of jars and bottles covered one whole wall. There was a table with a mortar and pestle, a pile of clean bandages, and a basin of pink water. The healer's room. Hilda's room.I was alone.I lifted the blanket and looked down at myself. My side was wrapped in thick white bandages. Around the edges of them, on my skin, I could see thin dark lines. They were fai

Chapter 17ELENAA week passed.My body healed faster than any human body should. The stab wound closed into a pink line. The black lines of poison faded, then vanished, until the skin on my side was smooth and pale again. Hilda said it was the bond. Kade's healing pouring into me, day and night, like a river that never stopped.I tried not to think about that.I tried not to think about a lot of things.Life in the pack was strange. After the ring, things had changed. Not all the way, but some. A few of the younger wolves nodded to me in the halls now. One of the cooks, a round-faced woman named Bess, started saving me warm bread with honey in the mornings. A little girl with a gap in her teeth followed me around the garden for a whole afternoon and asked if it was true I beat Vera with only a tiny knife."It's true," I told her."Were you scared?""Very."She thought about that for a long time. Then she said, "My mama says being scared and doing it anyway is the bravest kind," and r

Chapter 19ELENAFor a long moment, neither of us moved.The rain tapped against the window. Somewhere down in the yard, a horse snorted. Kade stood in the doorway with water dripping off his coat, and I stood by his desk with the black cloth in my shaking hand."Elena," he said slowly. "Put that down.""Why?" My voice came out sharp. "Are you afraid I'll show someone?"He closed the door behind him. Not hard. Softly. Like he was trying not to scare a wild animal."I came back early," he said. "I felt you. Through the bond. Your heart was racing like you were in danger. I thought something happened to you.""Something did happen to me." I held the cloth up between us. "Your pack happened to me."He looked at it. Then he looked at me. His face was tired, and sad, and I hated that it made my chest hurt."I found that in the street," he said. "That night. When I got to Willowbrook, the village was already burning. It was lying on the ground near the bakery. I picked it up.""And you kept