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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN: The Beast's Reckoning
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Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN: The Beast's Reckoning
The Vale was not quiet, but the silence inside Maxim was worse.Everywhere around him the world trembled with fire and blood. The outskirts of the capital still smoked from the clash that had torn fields into scars. Refugees stumbled into the broken streets, carrying nothing but ashes on their hands. Wolves limped back to camp with fangs bloodied, their eyes hollow. The Beast inside him had led them to victory—yet it did not feel like victory.It felt like hunger.He stood apart from his soldiers on the ridge of the ruined wall, watching the sun sink red through the haze. Zara lingered a few steps behind, silent. She had said nothing since the battle ended, only watching him with the kind of gaze that saw too much.“Don’t,” Maxim rasped before she could speak. His throat still carried the growl of the Beast. “Don’t ask me if I regret it.”“I wasn’t going to.” Her voice was soft, but it cut sharper than any blade. “I was going to ask if you’re still in there.”The words struck like iro
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN: The Shadow Crown
The palace no longer gleamed.Where once the banners of Vale’s royalty caught the morning sun, now they sagged in tatters, singed by stray fire and stained with soot. The streets that wound toward the gates were quiet—too quiet. Shops that had bustled for generations lay gutted, their windows hollow, their stones streaked with ash. Even the bells of the old cathedral refused to sound, as though the city itself held its breath.Ruby stood at the balcony above the grand square, gazing down at the smoldering skeleton of her people’s capital. Her reflection warped in the warped metal of her crown. Gold, yet darker now—veins of black threading through it where once it had shone pure.The whispers curled around her like smoke.They fear you because they are weak. They betray you because they envy your fire. Show them what a queen truly is.Her fingers flexed against the railing, nails digging grooves into the stone. Somewhere below, the survivors of the district fire had gathered, eyes lift
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN: The Burning Field
The Vale’s outskirts had once been farmland, a place of quiet mornings and silver dew rising off the grass. Now, smoke smothered the horizon. The air stank of charred wheat and blood, of something fouler lurking beneath—the Hollow’s breath carried on the wind.Maxim stood at the ridge overlooking the fields, armor scorched black at the edges, the Beast’s power humming in his bones. His soldiers—wolves in partial form, witches who had sworn to Elira’s memory, human blades who had cast aside fear—waited in tight ranks behind him. The world felt poised, held on the knife-edge of silence.Across the scorched field, Ruby’s banners of flame rippled crimson against the gray sky. Her crown-guard stretched like a wall of fire, shields reflecting her burning will. Even from here, Maxim could see her: tall, fierce, the crown sitting heavy on her head, her hair catching firelight as if it were made of embers. Her eyes glowed with more than rage. The Hollow whispered through her—he could almost he
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN: Vows in the Dark
The tunnels beneath the ruined quarter stank of smoke and damp stone. The war above had driven hundreds into these hollowed corridors, yet silence reigned here. The air was thick, expectant, as though the very walls waited for a word strong enough to anchor them against collapse.Maxim stood at the heart of the chamber, lit only by guttering candles pressed into cracks in the stone. The faint light flickered across faces—men and women bruised from street skirmishes, youths who had never carried a blade until this war forced it into their hands, old laborers who clutched axes once meant for wood and now turned against flesh.They were his now. His to lead, his to protect—or his to doom.Zara stood close, the pale glow of her staff brushing the edges of shadow. Her eyes were steady on him, but her hand curled tight at her side, betraying her unease. She had warned him again and again that binding men to his war meant binding their fates to the Beast that stirred in him. And yet here the
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN: The Hollow's Breath
The Vale had always been a city of stone, but that night, the stone itself seemed to shiver.Maxim felt it first beneath his boots, a faint tremor that rippled through the cobbles as though the ground were breathing. He stopped at the corner of a ruined street, lifting his hand for silence. His loyalists—those who had bled beside him only nights before—halted in unison.The wind that moved between the gutted houses was wrong. It was not the scent of ash or smoke, not even the copper of spilled blood. It was cold, damp, and empty. A breath drawn from a place that should not have been able to breathe.Zara came to his side, her staff’s crystal dim against the darkness. “You feel it too?”Maxim nodded slowly. “The Hollow.”One of the younger men behind them shifted uneasily, his voice cracking. “But the Hollow’s sealed. The Gate holds—doesn’t it?”The tremor answered for him. A low, grinding groan shook the stones, and dust fell in thin streams from broken arches. The Vale had begun to p
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN: The Queen of Cinders
The fire came at dawn.Vale had always been a city of stone, a fortress that had endured centuries of storms, invasions, and even the Hollow’s shadow. But stone meant little when the flames were loosed not by accident, but by decree.From the northern ramparts, Maxim watched smoke coil into the sky like the arms of some monstrous serpent. Whole districts writhed beneath the crown’s wrath, the blaze consuming shopfronts, houses, temples—anywhere Ruby’s guards declared disloyal.“By the spirits,” muttered Garrick, his Beta, the scars on his cheek flickering in the firelight. “She’s burning them alive.”Maxim said nothing at first. The Beast inside him prowled, teeth pressing against his control. Its instinct was simple: strike back, rend the oppressor limb from limb. But Maxim held firm, fists digging crescents into his palms. If he gave the Beast too much, it would never stop.Instead, he listened. The city itself seemed to scream beneath the flames—timbers snapping like bones, childre
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