All Chapters of THE MATE THE ROGUE ALPHA WAS MEANT TO KILL: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Ravin's POV I stopped lying to myself somewhere between leaving the garden and reaching the pack grounds.It was not a dramatic moment, no specific thought that broke through and forced the admission, just the quiet accumulation of everything that had happened over the last few weeks settling into something I could no longer reasonably call anything other than what it was.I had fallen for her, not slowly and not carefully and not in any way that resembled the controlled deliberate version of myself I had spent years building, but completely and without a clean exit, and I was done pretending otherwise.The curse had not taken my wolf. Weeks had passed since the night of the blood moon and my wolf was still present and whole and showed no sign of fading, and I had run out of ways to explain that away as temporary or pending or something I simply had not felt yet.The warning passed down through my bloodline, the thing every Alpha before me had treated as iron fact, was beginning to l

Elara's POVKael found me near the main corridor after second period.I had been walking to my locker with Freya when he fell into step beside me with the particular ease of someone who had never once worried about whether his company was welcome, and Freya took one look at his approach and very graciously announced she had forgotten something in the classroom and disappeared before I could stop her. I made a mental note to have words with her about that later, then turned to face Kael with the expression of someone who was perfectly fine and had not just been abandoned by her best friend."Training," Kael said, by way of opening, because apparently full sentences were optional this morning."Good morning to you too," I said, reaching my locker and spinning the combination."I want you to come to a session with the school pack," he said, leaning against the locker beside mine with his arms crossed and his eyes patient. "Friday after last class. Training field."I looked at him. "The

Elara's POVHe was already at the garden when I arrived, sitting on the bench with a small paper bag beside him and that unhurried stillness he carried everywhere, and he looked up when he heard my footsteps with an expression that was warmer than his usual calm in a way I was starting to recognise as specifically reserved for me, and something about that thought alone was enough to make the walk from the main building feel considerably shorter than it actually was.I sat beside him and he did not say anything immediately, just reached into the paper bag and set things on the bench between us one at a time, and I looked down and felt something unexpected move through my chest because it was my favourite chocolate, the specific kind from the market on the east side of town that I had mentioned once in passing without any expectation that anyone was actually listening, and the pastries from the bakery I had described to him during one of our conversations, the ones I associated with slo

Elara's POV I told them at breakfast.I had not planned to make an announcement about it, I had planned to sit down, eat my food and let it come up naturally if it came up at all, but the second I sat across from Freya she looked at my face and said, "Something happened," and I lasted approximately three seconds before I said, "He asked me to be his girlfriend."The table went silent for exactly one second.Then Freya made a sound that was not quite a scream but was in the same family as one, and Leo pointed at me and said, "I knew it. I called it. From day one I called it," and Nyx looked at me with the warmest expression I had ever seen from her and said simply, "Good.""When?" Freya demanded, leaning forward. "Last night? In the garden? Tell me everything.""There is not that much to tell," I said."There is absolutely that much to tell," Freya said. "He kissed you in the lunch hall in front of everyone and then told you he had a surprise for you and then apparently asked you to b

Ravin's POV It started quietly and then all at once.We were still under the shelter with the rain falling around us, her hands in my jacket and mine in her hair, and the kiss had shifted from soft into something with considerably more pull behind it, and that was when I felt it, that specific heat rising through my chest with a speed that had nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with her. My wolf had been restless since the blood moon but this was different, this was directed and locked onto her specifically with an urgency that had no interest in being managed quietly, and for once in my life I did not immediately try to manage it.She pulled back slightly and looked at my face, and I watched the moment she noticed, her expression shifting into something careful and curious at the same time."Your eyes," she said."I know."She held my gaze steadily. "Are you on heat?"There was no performance in the question, no discomfort, just a girl who had recently come into he