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Chapter Twenty-Six: Tease Under the Moonlight
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CLAIMED BY THE ALPHA PRINCIPAL Chapter Thirty-One
Eden’s POVI stood frozen at the top of the escalator, the hum of the mall around me dimming beneath the weight of his stare. People brushed past me in waves, their laughter and chatter spilling like water over stones, but none of it reached me. All I felt was the tether that stretched across the distance, the one Kael had tied around me without ever asking.He had not moved. He did not need to. His stillness was its own command. His eyes were not just watching but holding, claiming, as though they alone were enough to stop me in my tracks.Claire tugged at my arm, oblivious. “Eden? Come on, you are spacing out again.”I forced my legs to move, the fabric of my skirt swishing softly against my thighs as I followed her. Each step was a betrayal of the part of me that wanted to stay rooted in place, to keep looking at him until I understood why he unsettled me so deeply. I told myself it was fear. I told myself it was wrong. But beneath the tight knot of dread, something hotter curled l
CLAIMED BY THE ALPHA PRINCIPAL Chapter Thirty: Kael
Eden’s POVClaire kept talking as we moved farther away from the escalator, her words sharp and protective, but I barely heard her. My head was still full of noise that was not the mall’s noise at all. It was the echo of those boys’ voices, their laughter sticking to me like smoke, the heat of their stares still crawling over my skin. My hands would not stop shaking. I pressed them into the sides of my skirt to hide it, but it did not stop the tremor that lived inside me.“Forget them,” Claire said finally, her tone softer now. “You know how some guys are. They get off on being pests. They are all talk.”I wanted to nod, to let her comfort be enough, but something inside me twisted tighter. It was not just that those boys had followed us. It was how quickly my body had frozen under their attention, how powerless I had felt. And worse than that, it was the thought that had cut through the panic, uninvited and sharp.Kael.I kept seeing his eyes in my mind, pale and unyielding, the way
CLAIMED BY THE ALPHA PRINCIPAL Chapter Twenty-Nine: Confront
Eden’s POVHe smiled and then he left.For a long moment, I simply stared at the place where he had been, the patch of sidewalk that still seemed to echo with his presence. My chest rose and fell unevenly, relief mingling with disappointment so sharp it stung. My hands pressed against the glass as if to convince myself. He had left.But the silence he left behind was no comfort. It pressed down heavier than his gaze had. The emptiness outside was unbearable, and a strange hollowness spread through me, making me ache in a way that had nothing to do with fatigue.I stumbled back to bed, curling up beneath the sheets, clutching them tight against me. Sleep did not come. My eyes closed, but the image of him standing in the shadows burned against my lids.It was midmorning before the sound of the front door opening stirred me. The familiar creak of hinges, the slam of it shutting again, and then the voice of my best friend carried up the stairs.“Eden? You awake?”I sat up quickly, pulling
CLAIMED BY THE ALPHA PRINCIPAL Chapter Twenty-Eight: Dusk till Dawn
Eden’s POVThe curtain fell back into place, shutting out the sight of him, but it did nothing to ease the storm inside me. My hands shook as I clutched the fabric, holding it closed as though that could shield me from what lingered beyond. My chest ached with the weight of my heartbeat, each pulse thudding so violently I wondered if he could hear it even from where he stood.He was out there. I knew it as surely as I knew my own name. Even if I never looked again, the knowledge sat heavy against my skin, undeniable, unshakable. Kael was watching me.I pulled back from the window slowly, my legs unsteady as though I had run a great distance. The air in my room felt too thick, heavy enough to drag me down, to trap me in this strange place between fear and desire. I sat on the edge of my bed, pressing my trembling fingers against my lips, unable to forget the sight of him in the shadows.His stillness had been what unnerved me the most. He had not paced or shifted or given any sign of r
CLAIMED BY THE ALPHA PRINCIPAL Chapter Twenty-Seven: Watching
Eden’s POVI could not move at first. The streetlamp buzzed faintly above me, its pale glow settling across the empty road, but I could not tear my eyes from the shadows where he had vanished. My body remained frozen, as if my mind was still waiting for him to return, waiting for him to step back out and prove he had not left at all.The silence was suffocating. The world around me seemed too still, as though it was holding its breath the same way I was. My pulse thudded in my ears, and when I finally forced myself to draw air into my lungs, it came out shaky, uneven.“Go home,” he had said. The words clung to me, echoing in my head like a command that carried more weight than I wanted to admit. My feet finally moved, slow and heavy, carrying me back toward my front door. Each step felt reluctant, as though part of me had been left behind with him in the dark.When I closed the door behind me, the house felt unfamiliar. The walls seemed to hum with the memory of him, every shadow stre
CLAIMED BY THE ALPHA PRINCIPAL Chapter Twenty-Six: Tease Under the Moonlight
Eden’s POVThe silence between us was alive. It pulsed in the cool night air, filled with everything unsaid, everything restrained. My breath fogged faintly as I exhaled, my heart hammering against my ribs so hard I feared he could hear it.Kael stood a few feet away, a shadow carved into something more dangerous than the dark itself. He had not moved since stepping closer, but his presence pressed against me, heavy and inescapable.I told myself to leave, to turn around and return to the safety of my house, but my body betrayed me. My feet remained rooted, my eyes locked on him. It was as if the night had closed us off from the rest of the world, creating a private space where only we existed.He tilted his head slightly, studying me with a gaze that stripped me bare. His eyes were not kind, but they were not cruel either. They were intent. Possessive. Hungry in a way that made my skin burn.“You came outside knowing I would be here,” he said, his voice low, steady, with a thread of
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