All Chapters of The Mate Who KIlled Her Family: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Chapter 51ELENAThey buried Garrett on a gray afternoon, under the old pine at the edge of the pack cemetery.Not with honor. Not with songs. The pack stood around the hole in a quiet half circle while four warriors lowered him into the ground wrapped in a plain brown blanket. No one spoke over his grave. No one laid flowers on it.Brand stood at the very back with his arms crossed and his jaw tight. He hadn't said a word since they found the body. Orrin stood beside him, staring at the ground. Holt cried openly, the tears running down into his beard.By the next morning, all three of them had come back across the river.By the next evening, the whole pack knew everything. The cave. The ledger. The stolen silver. The cup of moonshade by the bed. The note.I did it for the old ways.It moved through the pack house like a cold wind. Wolves talking in low voices in the halls. Shaking their heads. Saying they always knew there was something wrong with the old man. Saying they never trust

Chapter 53KADEI didn't get home until after midnight.I had spent the whole day across the river, at the old hunting lodge. Somebody had to go through Garrett's things. His clothes. His books. The small wooden box of letters under his cot. I wanted to do it myself. I wanted to see if there was anything else. Another ledger. Another note. Something that would tell me why.There was nothing. Just an old man's things. A pipe he never smoked. A pair of worn boots. A drawing of a woman I didn't recognize, folded so many times it was soft as cloth.When I came back through the gate, Silas was waiting for me in the yard with a lamp."Elena fainted," he said, before I could even ask why he was up.My heart dropped. "What? Where? Is she—""She's fine. She's sleeping." He put his hand on my arm. "She was down in the omega's room near the kitchens. Her nose started bleeding. A lot. She fainted. I heard the omega shouting and went in. I carried her up to her room myself.""Why didn't anyone sen

Chapter 55 ELENAFor five days, I barely left my room.I couldn't stop thinking about Krystal. About the blood on the windowsill. About the empty white cup beside my bed, and Silas turning it over in his hands. Your omega won't be making any more of this.I didn't know if Krystal was alive. I didn't know if he was hurt. I didn't know if he was lying at the bottom of the river somewhere, his long dark hair spread out on the water.And I couldn't tell anyone.Every time I thought of saying it, the cold hand closed around my throat. Every time I thought of Kade, standing in that hallway, looking at me with blood on my lip and saying go with Hilda, something in my chest twisted so hard I couldn't breathe.He didn't believe me.Or maybe he did, and he just didn't care.I didn't know which was worse.On the fifth morning, Bess knocked on my door."Get up, love," she said. "Wash your face. Put on something n

Chapter 57KADEThe bond went quiet on the first night Lucien Grey slept under my roof.I felt it happen. I was lying awake in my bed, the way I always did, feeling Elena on the other side of the house. Her heartbeat. Her breathing. The soft, warm pull of her, steady as the tide.And then, a little after midnight, it faded.Not gone. But muffled. Thin. Like a voice calling from the far side of a river. I sat up in the dark and reached for her, and I could barely find her at all.I told myself she was just sleeping deeply. That she was tired. That it would come back by morning.It didn't.It stayed like that the next day, and the next. Every time I reached for her, there was only a faint, cold whisper where the warmth used to be.And every time I looked for her, she was with him.Lucien walked with her in the garden after breakfast. Lucien sat beside her at lunch. Lucien asked her to show him the training yard, and

Chapter 59SILASI left the pack house an hour before dawn.Nobody saw me go. Nobody ever does. I have been slipping in and out of that house since I was a boy, and in twenty-eight years, not one wolf has ever asked me where I was going.Why would they? I'm Silas. Good, loyal Silas. The beta who smiles at everyone. The brother who stands at the alpha's right hand.It's almost too easy.I rode west, then south, along the old road that nobody uses anymore. Past the edge of our territory. Past the last farms. Down into the low, wet country where the river spreads out and loses itself in the marshes.The Hollow Fen.The mist came up to meet me as soon as the ground went soft. Thick and white and cold, curling around my horse's legs. The trees out here were black and twisted, half drowned in dark water. Nothing sang. Nothing moved. The only sound was the slow suck and splash of hooves in the mud.My horse didn't like it. He n