Chapter 272. Don’t Touch Him Again

Elizabeth’s POV

“Alpha… she’s your mate?” Harry stammered, his voice faltering. “I—I didn’t know she was your mate.”

He looked genuinely devastated, his shoulders slumping as if the weight of the revelation had crushed him. There was no mockery or defiance in his expression—only pain and regret. That should have mattered more to me than it did in that moment, but fear swallowed everything else whole.

The alpha’s claws slid from his fingertips with a sharp, unmistakable sound, elongated and lethal. His chest rose and fell heavily, each breath vibrating with restrained fury. I had heard stories—whispers really—about lycan alphas and their mates. About how the bond stripped them of restraint, how possessiveness became instinct, how rage followed even the faintest threat.

And now, I was standing in the middle of o