All Chapters of THE MATE THE ROGUE ALPHA WAS MEANT TO KILL: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Ravin's POVThe pull hit me without warning, right in the middle of watching two of my warriors settle a dispute on the training ground.My hand was at my chest before I understood why, and my wolf went completely still inside me, the way it only did when something had its full attention. I had felt that stillness before in fights, in moments where the wrong decision meant someone died. This was different. This was not danger.I knew what it was immediately. I had known about it my entire life, carried in my bloodline like a debt that had never been paid. When my fated mate took her first shift I would feel it, sharp and specific, pointing me in one direction. Every Alpha before me had felt it. Every one of them had acted on it.She was shifting. Somewhere out there in the dark, she was shifting right now.I did not explain myself to the warriors watching me. I was already walking by the time they registered that something had changed, and running by the time the treeline took me.The

Ravin's POVI told myself I was gathering information.That was what I called it the first night I stood in the treeline beyond the academy fence and watched the students move between buildings. I came back the second night. And the third.By the fourth I had her routine mapped. She left the dormitory at seven forty every morning, always with the same three people, the tall boy who talked too much, the sharp girl who walked like she was ready to argue with anyone, and the quieter one who noticed everything. She crossed the east courtyard to reach the main building and took the same path back at the end of every day. She ate lunch at the same table, spent her free periods near the old oak against the east wall, and laughed differently depending on who she was with, open and unguarded with her friends, polite and measured with everyone else.I knew which window was hers by the second day.I told myself that was still information gathering.On the fifth afternoon I finally heard someone

Elara's POV I told Freya before first period even started. I had not planned to. I had actually planned to say nothing, to walk into school, sit through my classes and handle the whole thing quietly the way I handled most things. That plan lasted approximately four minutes into breakfast before Freya looked at me and said, "What happened," and I told her everything. "He asked you to meet him," she said, setting her cup down slowly. "Specifically. At a specific location. After class." "The garden near the east oak," I said. Freya stared at me. "Stop looking at me like that," I said. "I am trying to process this responsibly she said." Nyx had not said anything yet. She was looking at me with that steady expression she used when she was deciding how much of what she was thinking to share out loud. "It is not a big deal," I said, mostly to myself. "He just wants to talk. He said he wants to know more about the school." "He could have asked anyone in this school about the school

Ravin's POV I was angry at myself the entire ride back to Darkhowl.Not at anything that had happened, nothing had gone wrong, and that was precisely the problem. I had sat in a garden with a girl for over an hour and talked about things I did not talk about with anyone, listened to her speak about months of being mocked and dismissed with a quietness that was not weakness but something considerably harder than weakness, and then I had touched her face like it was something I had been doing for years.I had not planned any of it, and that was what bothered me. I operated on intention, every move I made and every word I said was deliberate and considered and entirely within my control, and the garden had been something else entirely, something I could not put in a clean category, and that irritated me more than I was willing to admit out loud.I reached the Darkhowl pack grounds just past nightfall and Cord was waiting near the main fire with the expression he wore when he had informa

Ravin's POV She was already waiting by the oak when I arrived, and that surprised me slightly, not that she was there but that she had beaten me to it, standing with her arms loosely crossed and her eyes on the treeline beyond the garden fence like she had been thinking about something and had not quite finished yet. She turned when she heard my footsteps with an expression I had already learned to read as her thinking face, the one where something was sitting just behind her eyes waiting to come out.I sat on the bench. She did not sit immediately."You disappear every evening," she said.Not a greeting. Not a warmup. Straight to it, which was very Elara and which I had started to find more interesting than I probably should have."I do," I said."Every single day since you transferred. Last bell rings and you are just gone. Nobody sees you leave, nobody sees where you go." She finally sat, turning slightly toward me. "That is not normal transfer student behaviour.""You said that