Accidentally Claimed
Ruby Morgan was, in every way, an ordinary human. At twenty-six, she had never had a boyfriend, a date, or a first kiss. Throughout school, her crushes went unnoticed, perhaps due to her nerdy appearance or her tendency to blend in. She always chose studying over parties.
Despite being a grown woman, she remained a virgin and was still intensely curious about sex. By day, she was the head technician at a top digital company; by night, she ran a small diner. Her quiet life was about to change with a single dare from her friend Whitney, who finally managed to drag her to a party one evening.
Ethan Blackwood, a thirty-two-year-old Alpha, led the infamous Blood Moon Pack. He was a powerful figure in the werewolf world and a business magnate in the human realm, where he was seen as an unattainable aristocrat. To the world, he was a handsome, successful, and notorious bachelor, often at the center of a new scandal. He had been engaged three times, only to break it off each time, sometimes because the woman got too clingy, other times because he simply got bored and cheated. Women swarmed him, but Ethan had made a vow long ago: he would only settle with his fated mate.
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Chapter: My Father's DaughterThe week after Aurora's return. The elders summoned her, not to welcome her home but to judge. The chamber was ancient, stone walls carved with the sigils of long-dead alphas, a long oak table scarred from centuries of judgments, and a single high window letting in pale afternoon light. The council of elders sat in a semicircle: gray-furred wolves, sharp-eyed alphas from neighboring packs, a few surviving survivors of Silas’s raids. No one from the Blood Moon Pack was allowed in to speak on her behalf. Jason had protested. Whitney had argued. The elders had refused them both.“This is not a pack matter,” they had said. It was worse than that. It was political.Aurora stood alone in the center of the chamber. A sixteen years old, in an ankle-length red frock brushed the stone at her feet, the color too vivid against the gray austerity of the room like a drop of blood on snow. Her black hair, streaked with red, fell loose over her shoulders, catching the thin light that filtered through
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2026-08-18
Chapter: HomecomingAurora and the Blood Moon Pack spent the rest of the day wandering through the ruins of their shared memories. There were tears, plenty, but there was also the faint, healing sound of laughter echoing against the diner walls. As the shadows lengthened and the neon sign outside began to hum, Jason finally asked the question that had been hovering in the air like a storm cloud.“What do you plan to do, Aurora?”She looked at them, her gaze lingering on each face, her family by blood and by bond. “I really don’t know,” she admitted, her voice small. “Can I have a day? Maybe two? Just to... think.”She looked at them hopefully, bracing for a "no" or a lecture on pack safety. Even though the urge to whisk her away was vibrating through everyone in the room, they understood. They didn't want a prisoner; they wanted a leader who chose them back. Jason gave a slow, solemn nod."Sure, take all the time you need," he said, "we're proud of you," he added quietly. "No matter what."One by one,
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Chapter: The ReunionAs soon as the door crashed against the wall, the heavy atmosphere of the diner shattered. Whitney didn’t wait for a tactical assessment or a signal from Jason; she moved past everyone instantly. Her gaze locked onto the red-haired girl in the sunny yellow blouse, and before anyone could blink, she crossed the distance like a woman who had been holding her breath for six years and had finally been given oxygen. This wasn't at all how Aurora had imagined their meeting. In the dark, quiet hours in her cave, she had pictured rejection, fear, or a cold interrogation about the blood on her hands. She hadn’t expected to be accepted, let alone cherished."My child," Whitney whispered into her hair, her voice thick with six years of unshed tears. "Thank you... thank you for staying alive."Before Aurora could even process the warmth of Whitney’s arms, Jason was there. He moved like a mountain collapsing into a hug, wrapping his massive arms around both of them, anchoring them to the spot.
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2026-08-18
Chapter: Stop & SipTHEOThe first hour slipped past in the steady hum of routine, the scrape of chairs, the hiss of bacon on the grill, the low murmur of morning regulars staking claim to their usual tables. She introduced herself as “Anna,” her voice calm, carefully leveled, as if she’d practiced the tone as much as the name. But it didn’t sit right. It felt like something pulled off a rack at the last minute, useful, but not truly hers.Mia and Dorcas took to her immediately. They always did have soft spots for strays. Within minutes they were showing her where we kept the extra menus, how to balance three plates without tipping gravy onto a customer’s lap, when to refill coffee before someone had to ask. She listened closely, nodding once, absorbing everything with sharp, deliberate attention.Despite the blaze of red hair that should have drawn every wandering eye in the diner, the morning crowd barely looked twice. To them, she was just another teenager picking up shifts for pocket money. Another q
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2026-08-18
Chapter: Living AgainAURORAI stayed in the cave longer than I meant to. At first, it was only supposed to be a temporary sanctuary, a place to let the echoes of fire, screams, and falling stone drain out of my marrow. But the days bled into a hazy cycle of quiet companionship with Onyx. My wolf was my only anchor, a steady balm against the jagged edges of my mind. When the nightmares clawed at me, she was there with a warm mental nudge; during the long, silent hours, she offered the phantom comfort of fur-against-spirit when human words felt too heavy to carry.We hunted together in the wild, when we craved meat. no language needed, just shared breath and the rhythm of the chase. In the stillness of the nights, she told me stories of things I should have remembered but couldn't. She spoke of my father, the Alpha, with a clarity that made my heart ache. Onyx had been there since my first breath; she was a part of me that Silas, for all his dark genius, couldn't touch. She had been the silent witness to m
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Chapter: I Am OnyxIn the weeks that followed the night that Silas Spire burned. Word spread like wildfire through the territories, first as rumor, then as confirmed truth. The towering fortress of dark stone and iron, once a symbol of terror where hybrids prowled and screams echoed under moonless skies, had been reduced to smoldering rubble. No survivors emerged from the ashes. No hybrids swarmed the ruins. Only silence, and the acrid scent of charred alchemy lingering on the wind.Packs rejoiced, cautiously at first, then with growing fervor. Borders long sealed cracked open: tentative alliances reformed, trade routes whispered back to life, new alphas rose in territories left leaderless by Silas's shadow. Markets sprang up in neutral clearings, hunters returned to old grounds, pups played without the constant fear of hybrid raids. The world exhaled. But questions festered beneath the celebration. Rumors swirled around campfires and in alpha dens: Some claimed the fierce alpha of the Aisle Pack, broad
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Fated To Mate
Kael was raised on one unshakable belief: fated mates were a weakness. Stories of alphas losing their minds, their control, and eventually their lives over mates had been passed down like cautionary tales. His great-grandfather had been one of them, brought to ruin by the unbearable loss of his mate. Kael’s grandfather had made sure that never happened again, enforcing strict laws which prioritized strength over sentiment. The pack thrived under that discipline. No one bonded. No one lost themselves. Kael believed in those laws. He wanted to believe. But wanting and doing weren’t exactly the same thing. Now, standing face to face with his fated mate, he was at a crossroads. Accepting them could fracture everything he was taught to protect. Rejecting them might break something in him that he would never be able to fix. Either way, the consequences were inevitable and permanent.
Max never asked for much out of life. Just to finish her endless list of chores quickly so she could go to school, where the world felt wide and full of things to learn. Existing quietly had always been her way, keeping her head down, staying out of trouble, and doing her best to be invisible. But nothing about her life was simple.The most popular boy in school suddenly seemed interested in her for reasons she couldn’t understand. He was good looking, admired by all and magnetic, while she was awkward, quiet and unimportant. Soon, Max would find out that she wasn’t so small after all, and her life, every strange, shadowed part of it, was just one piece in a much bigger puzzle. And Kael? He wasn’t just the school’s golden boy. He was the beginning of everything.
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Chapter: Find Me In The DarkA month had passed since the Alpha ceremony, and the pack had settled into its new rhythm with the careful politeness of people stepping around broken glass. Kael was Alpha now officially, publicly, and irrevocably.The transition had been swift, almost seamless. Roderick had stepped down the very next morning after the ritual, claiming age and the need for “fresh blood.” He moved to the elder’s wing with a smile that never quite reached his eyes and immediately began pressing Kael and Lillian for grandchildren.“The bloodline must continue,” he said at every dinner, every council meeting, every casual encounter in the halls. “Strong heirs. That’s what matters now.”Kael always nodded with a smile, always promise to try.He was happy or at least, he told himself he was happy. He had the crown, the respect of his people, and a beautiful chosen mate who anticipated his every need. His life was a series of checkboxes marked with perfect, golden ink.But sometimes, in the quiet spac
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2026-07-06
Chapter: The LieThe pack house was quiet in the gray light of early morning, the kind of quiet that felt heavy, and expectant. Maxine had been in the lower dungeon for two days now, stone walls damp with centuries of secrets, iron bars that smelled faintly of old blood and wolfsbane. They’d bound her wrists again, though the rope felt almost unnecessary; she hadn’t fought, hadn’t spoken, hadn’t even cried out when the cell door clanged shut. She’d simply sat on the cold floor, knees drawn to her chest, staring at the small barred window high above where the first pale fingers of dawn were beginning to creep in. She didn’t know what they’d done to Kael. And everytime she tried to ask the guards they just averted their eyes and remain tight lipped. Being apart from Kael hurt worse than any chain.Meanwhile, upstairs, in the heir’s suite, rooms Kael had once called his own before exile, he woke slowly, head pounding like someone had driven spikes behind his eyes. The sheets were tangled around his legs,
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Chapter: Lock Her UpMAXINE Everything is a blur of gray shadows and the sound of my own blood rushing in my ears. The Memory-Weaver’s voice is a swarm of insects, biting at the air, unpicking the threads of Kael’s soul right in front of me. I lock my fingers together so tight the bones ache, my whole body vibrating with a terror I can’t let out.Across the courtyard, Kael was like a trapped storm. He isn't a man anymore; He threw his entire weight against the enforcers, his muscles cording like steel cables, his fury blazed with a golden light that seemed to defy the sedative in his blood. Every cell in me screams to run to him. To throw myself between his beautiful, broken mind and the cold cruelty of his father.But I’m anchored. One girl against a pack of monsters. A flicker of candlelight in a hurricane. My body knows it. My fear knows it. And my voice, that cursed, broken cage, betrays me again. I open my mouth, desperate to scream his name, to tell him to hold on, to promise I’ll find him in the
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2026-03-17
Chapter: Only WeaknessThe air in the courtyard was electric, a storm front moving in. Kael ignored Lillian’s poisonous words as if she were nothing more than a ghost. His entire world had narrowed down to the small, trembling girl at his side. He tried to lunge for her, but his knees buckled, the ground rushing up to meet him before the enforcers caught his arms.“Max—” he choked out.Roderick simply flicked his hand casually, sending two more enforcers to tear them apart.“Get your filthy hands off her!” Kael thundered. The sound didn't come from his throat; it came from his soul, cracking through the silence of the courtyard like a mountain splitting in half.The pack flinched as one. Even the older wolves, seasoned by decades of violence, felt a primal shiver. They hadn't known Kael was capable of such raw, devastating rage. Despite the heavy sludge of wolfsbane and the paralyzing agents screaming through his veins, his muscles corded with a strength that shouldn't have been possible. He nearly thr
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Chapter: InterloperMax climbed into the van without a word or a glance at the others. No one had to tell her. She simply moved, small, and determined, sundress still damp at the hem, straight to where they’d laid Kael across the bench seat. She slid in beside him, lifted his head with careful hands, and settled it in her lap as though the rest of the world had ceased to exist.His breathing was shallow, ragged at the edges. Every few seconds his lips moved, forming her name in a soft, broken whisper.“Max…”Then, fainter:“Run… hide… I’ll find you… later…”Even drugged, even half-gone, he was still trying to save her.She didn’t answer. She only cradled his face closer, fingers threading through his hair, thumb brushing the bruise blooming along his jaw. Tears slipped down her cheeks in silent tracks, dripping onto his shirt, darkening the fabric in small, perfect circles.The van doors closed. The engine growled awake. Tires bit gravel, then asphalt, carrying them away from the boardwalk, the melting s
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2026-03-07
Chapter: Max...Run!The date had been a dream, a fragile, silver-tipped miracle that felt like the first page of a different life. They walked down the creaking stairs together, her hand steady in his, and stepped out into the salt-damp evening. The air was cool and clean, carrying the low murmur of waves and the faint, metallic tang of low tide. The beach stretched ahead, nearly empty: only a few distant dog-walkers silhouetted against the horizon and the occasional cry of gulls wheeling overhead. The sky had gone bruised lavender, the sea restless under the last of the light.Kael slipped off his shoes first, toes curling into the cool sand. He knelt in front of Maxine without a word, gentle fingers undoing the straps of her sandals, lifting each foot in turn so she could step free, his touch careful, reverent, never lingering too long.They walked barefoot along the wet, packed sand where the waves could reach them. Fingers laced, they matched pace without trying. The water rushed up to kiss their ank
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