The Alpha King's Unclaimed Queen
"Your window to become a mother is closing," the doctor said, holding up my dark medical scan. Determined to have a family before it was too late, and reeling from the ultimate betrayal of catching my fiancé in our bed, I made a choice. I went to a local clinic and requested a human donor. No wolves. No pack politics.
But a catastrophic administrative mix-up changed everything.
Instead of a quiet, ordinary human, the clinic used the genetic sample of Alpha Killian Cross, an intimidating billionaire, a cold and domineering leader, and a powerful shifter campaigning to become the supreme Alpha King. When he finds out I am carrying his only heir, my simple life is shattered.
He demands a strict contract marriage, forcing me into a world of high-stakes pack politics where I am treated as a weak outsider. But as they underestimate me, they don't know the truth: I am not just a surrogate. I have a long-hidden lineage of my own, and my fight for my baby is about to trigger a massive power struggle that will change the shifter world forever.
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Chapter: Chapter 38: Nothing Matters MoreKillian POV I was in the east wing with Owen, reviewing security reports when the alarm tore through the estate, making the reports in front of us suddenly feel absurdly small against whatever was happening beyond that door.I didn't wait for a briefing. I was moving before the first guard reached us, some old certainty already screaming through me that whatever this was, it had come for her specifically. Every second I spent gathering information was a second I couldn't afford to lose.The corridors blurred past in fragments, staff scattering and distant shouting carrying through the estate. I let the shift take me halfway, enough to move faster and hit harder without losing the reasoning mind I needed to actually find her. Two attackers came at me near the main staircase. The first barely had time to raise his weapon before I drove him into the wall, and the second went down under a blow that sent him sprawling across the floor. I didn't stop to see whether either of them would g
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
Chapter: Chapter 37: The Hidden Enemy Vivienne POV A faint electronic buzz cut through the silence, so unexpected that I froze, certain for one disorienting moment that I had imagined it.It came again, muffled and rhythmic, unmistakably real. My first instinct was relief, sudden and overwhelming. Perhaps it was Owen. Perhaps it was an emergency channel I had not known to look for. Perhaps rescue had arrived in a form I had not expected.I scrambled toward the emergency case and tore through it with far less care than my earlier search had allowed. My fingers caught the edge of a seam I had not noticed before. Beneath the rations and first aid supplies was a false bottom.Inside sat a compact satellite phone, its screen lit as it vibrated steadily against my palm.I stared at it, caught between desperate hope and a fear I could not explain. No one should have known this device existed. No one should have had any reason to hide a phone inside a panic room meant to be secret from everyone but the family it protected.I ans
Last Updated: 2026-09-09
Chapter: Chapter 36: Breach Vivienne POV Priya's grip on my arm was the only steady thing in a hallway that had turned into chaos within a few heartbeats.We ran together, a guard I didn't recognize leading the way with one hand hovering near the weapon at his hip. He shouted directions over the blare of the alarm, and I could barely process them fast enough to follow. Staff scattered around us in every direction. Some sprinted toward the lower levels, while others stood frozen in doorways, their eyes wide with the panic of people who had trained for emergencies they had never believed would happen.Through a window at the end of the corridor, I caught a broken glimpse of the grounds below. Shapes moved quickly across the lawn in the dim evening light, too many and too organised to be random. A body hit stone with a hard crack, followed by a snarl that raised every hair on my arms."This isn't like before," I said, breathless, as we rounded another corner. "This isn't like the poisoning or Draven at the gate
Last Updated: 2026-09-08
Chapter: Chapter 35: The Letter ArrivesVivienne POV “Miss Vivienne, this letter just arrived for you.”I looked up as the maid stood at my door, holding out a thick envelope.“My grandmother?”“Yes, miss. It was brought with the morning post.”I took it from her, my fingers closing around the familiar paper. My grandmother's cramped handwriting covered the front, and my stomach tightened.“Thank you.”The maid nodded and left, closing the door behind her.I stared at the envelope.I had been waiting weeks for an answer to the letter I'd sent my grandmother. Now that it was finally here, I wasn't sure I wanted to open it. For weeks, I had wanted answers badly enough to lose sleep over them. Now they were sitting in my hands, and I found myself afraid of what knowing the truth might change.For the past two days, everything Killian had shared with me on the terrace was still on my mind. The article Owen was trying to counter had added another worry, and Killian had been careful with me since that night, neither distant nor
Last Updated: 2026-09-07
Chapter: Chapter 34: Guarded HeartVivienne POV “It's not as bad as it could be,” Owen said as we entered his office.He had the article pulled up on his tablet by the time we reached his desk, and I made myself read it in full, even though every instinct told me to look away before I finished the first paragraph.It was worse than I'd braced for, though not in the way I expected. The reporter hadn't printed the accusation outright. She hadn't needed to. She had simply described the scene at the gathering in careful, damning detail. The unanswered question, the silence that followed, my own composure described as “notably measured” in a way that made it sound less like grace under pressure and more like practiced evasion.Vivienne Cross declined to deny the allegations directly.I read the sentence twice.It wasn't a lie. That was what made it dangerous. I had refused to answer a question that had been built on an accusation no one had been willing to make openly, and the reporter had turned my refusal into evidence.
Last Updated: 2026-09-06
Chapter: Chapter 33 : Killian Opens UpKillian POV"Can I ask you something?" Vivienne said as we sat together on the terrace after the household had gone quiet. She had wrapped herself in one of my jackets, and neither of us had mentioned it."Something personal, not political.""You can ask."She looked towards the dark line of trees beyond the estate walls before turning back to me. "Why did you go to a clinic at all? A man like you, in your position, I'd have expected an arrangement, a match brokered through the council, something more traditional than freezing a sample and leaving it in cold storage."I hadn't expected the question, though perhaps I should have. It was the one question that led directly back to the beginning of all of this."I did have an arrangement once," I said slowly. "A marriage, arranged exactly the way you'd expect. It didn't end the way it was supposed to."Vivienne stayed quiet, watching me with the same careful attention I'd noticed earlier . She wasn't waiting for her chance to speak. She w
Last Updated: 2026-09-05
Chapter: Chapter 43: Mr Harlan was wrong(Meghan’s POV)The morning came too quietly.I opened my eyes and immediately remembered the building.The news from the night before returned in pieces, starting with haran telling me that five people had died, then the police sitting in the living room, and finally the words that had left me too stunned to properly respond. I stayed in bed, staring at the ceiling while I tried to convince myself that the investigation would clear everything up.I knew what I had recommended at the site. I had pointed out the problem with the support and told Naomi that the engineers needed to check it before anything was closed up. I hadn’t told anyone to use an unsafe method, and I certainly hadn’t done anything that should have brought a building down.Once they went through the plans and spoke to everyone who had worked on the site, they would understand that.At least, that was what I needed to believe.I reached for my phone from the nightstand, expecting to see a few missed calls from Imogen o
Last Updated: 2026-09-10
Chapter: Chapter 42: Someone calledAdrian’s POV“Is this Adrian?”The voice was unfamiliar, and I shifted the phone against my ear, already wondering who had given a stranger my number. “Yes. Who’s this?”“My name is Victor. I’m Meghan’s stepdad.”That caught me off guard. Meghan had never really talked about him, and with everything happening tonight, his call was the last thing I expected. “Okay… why are you calling me?”There was a small pause on the other end before he answered. “Someone contacted me about Meghan.”I straightened from the chair in the private study, my attention sharpening. “What did they say?”“They said she’s been digging too deeply into something.” Victor sounded uneasy now. “They told me I needed to warn her before she got herself into trouble.”I glanced toward the closed door, knowing Meghan was somewhere else in the private residence with Sophie. “Digging into what exactly?”“I don’t know.” His answer came quickly, then softened. “They didn’t give me much. Just that she was asking questions
Last Updated: 2026-09-08
Chapter: Chapter 41: She knows something Adrian’s POVOnce the police were gone, the house seemed to settle into an uneasy quiet.Dad lasted only a few more minutes before leaving too, carrying the officers’ questions—and whatever answers he had managed to give them—out with him. I watched him disappear down the hallway, then turned back to Meghan and Sophie. Sophie hadn’t moved much. She was still beside Meghan, one hand covering hers, while Meghan kept staring at the floor as if the right explanation might somehow be hiding there.I couldn’t sit around waiting for one.My phone was already in my hand by the time I stepped away from the table. I found Naomi’s number, glanced once at Meghan, and moved toward the other side of the room. “I need to make a call,” I told them, not waiting for either of them to respond.Naomi answered on the second ring. “Adrian?”I leaned my shoulder against the wall and lowered my voice. “You’ve heard about the collapse, right?” There was no point dressing this up as a casual call. I needed to
Last Updated: 2026-09-06
Chapter: Chapter 40: Marriage cancelled(Adrian’s POV)The call was still playing in my head.He hadn't told me much, only that I needed to come home, and the way he said it made it obvious that it was something urgent.Sophie and Meghan were quiet throughout the ride.We were almost at the entrance of the gate when I noticed some cars. They looked like cop cars. Two were parked near the gate, and more were in the driveway.I slowed down the car and looked at Meghan. But she was already looking at meWe finally stepped out of the car and began heading in before Sophie walked up beside us and looked at the cars, one after another. “Were we expecting people?” she asked.“No,” I replied. If Dad had anyone coming over, he would have told me.I opened the door and stepped inside.Dad was sitting in the sitting room with some men I didn't recognise. They were sitting around the table with papers spread in front of them. From the way they were dressed and the badges I saw on the two of them, they were definitely cops.Harlan final
Last Updated: 2026-09-04
Chapter: Chapter 39: A breakMeghan’s POVI woke up still annoyed with Adrian.The conversation from the night before kept coming back to me, especially the way he had dismissed every question I asked about Harbor Point. I had expected him to be protective of his family’s business, but the way he shut me down made me even more curious.I reached for my phone, then stopped myself.No.I wasn’t doing this again.I had spent enough time thinking about Harbor Point. For today, I was leaving it alone. Whatever Adrian wasn’t willing to tell me could wait until I had a clearer head.I was halfway through getting ready when Sophie appeared in the doorway, already dressed and looking far too pleased with herself.“Get changed,” she said, leaning against the frame. “We’re going out.”I glanced at her through the mirror. “Where?”“That’s not important. Just get dressed.”I turned around, holding the brush in my hand. “Sophie, I have work.”“You always have work.” She stepped into the room and folded her arms. “When was the
Last Updated: 2026-08-31
Chapter: Chapter 38: Something StrangeAdrian’s POVI was halfway through reviewing a report when my phone lit up with Naomi’s name. I answered and kept my eyes on the document. “What’s up?”“Meghan,” Naomi said. “She’s starting to look too deeply into Harbor Point.”My eyes stopped on the same line. “How deep?”“She’s been asking about the old project and going through documents she wasn’t supposed to see.” Naomi paused. “She’s getting curious about things that have nothing to do with the current development.”I leaned back in my chair, already knowing which project she meant. “Atlas.”“Yes.” Her voice dropped slightly. “I think she’s getting close to something.”I set the report aside. “Did she say anything to you?”“Not directly. She mentioned Atlas at the site yesterday, then corrected herself.” Naomi exhaled quietly. “She knows there’s something strange about Harbor Point. If she keeps searching, she’ll eventually find what she shouldn’t.”I ran a hand over my jaw. I’d hoped Meghan would lose interest once she realize
Last Updated: 2026-08-30
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