Mated To The Alpha King (Raven and Ethan) novel Chapter 160

Alpha Ethan’s POV

I sat on the floor of my study as I finished the fifth bottle of whiskey when the door suddenly burst open. The loud crash against the wall made me flinch, but I didn’t look up immediately.

My head felt heavy, my vision blurry, and the weight of everything pressing down on me made it almost impossible to breathe.

The scent that hit my nostrils a second later was all too familiar, Beta Matthew.

Of course, it had to be him.

He stormed in like an angry bull, his steps echoing off the walls, his aura radiating dominance even though mine was still stronger–though at the moment, I didn’t feel like an alpha. I felt like a broken man.

Matthew stopped in front of me, his tall frame blocking the dim light coming from the open

door.

Without asking, without a single word, he reached down and snatched the next bottle of whiskey from my hand. I had just uncorked it, the bitter liquid promising me another round of numbness, but now it was gone, ripped away like everything else in my life.

“Give that back,” I snarled, my voice hoarse and raw, the stench of alcohol clinging to every word. I tried to grab the bottle, but he stepped back, holding it out of my reach.

“No,” he said firmly, his tone laced with authority but also something else: concern.

“You’ve had enough.”

“Enough?” I laughed bitterly, the sound scraping my throat like broken glass. “Don’t you dare tell me what’s enough, Matthew. Not today.” I staggered to my feet, my legs shaky but my anger steady. “Get the hell out of here before I”

“Before you what?” he cut in sharply, his piercing blue eyes locking onto mine. “Before you try to fight me in the state you’re in? Don’t even try it, Ethan.”

My fists clenched at my sides, my wolf pacing angrily inside me, howling in pain, in rage, in loss. But Matthew didn’t stop there. He took a deep breath, his jaw tightening as he spoke again.

“I’m not leaving you like this.”

“Why?” I barked, my voice rising like a whip. “Why the hell are you even here? To tell me what? That Raven didn’t do it? That she’s innocent? Is that why you came?”

Matthew’s face didn’t flinch, didn’t soften. He met my words head–on with a steady gaze. “No,” he said, his voice calm but firm. “I came to be with a friend who just lost someone.”

That hit me harder than a punch to the gut. For a second, I couldn’t breathe. My lips parted, but no words came out. My chest tightened, my burned, and suddenly everything I’d been holding back erupted like a dam breaking.

throat

I dropped back down onto the floor, my hands clutching my hair as if I could rip the pain out from the roots. My voice cracked, raw and broken. “She’s gone, Matthew,” whispered, then screamed louder, “She’s gone!”

Tears I didn’t even know I had left streamed down my face, hot and relentless. I didn’t care that I was Alpha. I didn’t care about strength or pride or power. None of it mattered anymore. Nothing mattered because Elisa my Elisa was gone.

“After my parents were killed,” I choked out, my voice shaking, “I swore… I swore I would protect her. I promised myself nothing would ever happen to her, Matthew. Nothing. And now…” My voice cracked again, and I slammed my fist against the floor so hard the sound echoed like a gunshot. “And now she’s gone. The only family I had left was gone.”

Matthew crouched beside me, his big hand tapping my shoulder gently, a gesture of comfort even though it barely reached me through the storm raging

inside.

Chapter 160

I know,” he said softly, his voice a deep rumble that barely carried over my harsh breathing “know, Ethan. But drowning yourself in alcohabita what happened.

I laughed bitterly, the sound hollow and cold. “You think I don’t know that? You think I don’t know nothing will bring her back?” My voice to 4 ngan filled with rage and despair. “Itan’t even find her body, Matthew! Lcan’t even bury her! Give her a befitting burial like she deservest My hands shook violently as I gripped the edge of the table, sending empty bottles clattering to the floor. “Do you know what that feels like? To not even have a body to mourn?”

Matthew’s silence was answer enough. He stayed crouched, his presence solid and steady like an anchor in the chaos, but it did nothing to calm the storm tearing me apart. I leaned back against the wall, my head pounding, my heart bleeding.

“I thought…” I began, my voice trembling, “I thought Raven had forgiven me. I thought she was ready to accept the bond.”

A humorless laugh slipped past my lips. “Stupid, right? I thought we were finally past all of this. That maybe just maybe, there was a chance for us. My jaw tightened, my teeth grinding. “But I didn’t know… I didn’t know she would do this. I didn’t know she’d get her revenge this way.”

My hands curled into fists so tight my knuckles turned white. My wolf snarled inside me, restless, vengeful. I slammed my hand against the wall, cracking the wood. “She couldn’t do it to me, no.

She couldn’t hurt me the way I hurt her, so she took the only thing I had left! My sister!” My voice shattered into a roar Elisa from me!”

that shook the walls. “She took

Matthew flinched but didn’t move away. He stayed right there, his voice low and careful when he finally spoke again. “Ethan…”

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