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last update publish date: 2026-08-25 00:30:38

Calla's POV

Seven days of silence from four numbers that used to light up like fireworks, and I'd asked for every single one of them.

"You didn't have to actually enforce it," Jade said, setting a mug down in front of me at her kitchen table, steam curling up between us. "A week off from Blackthorn chaos doesn't usually mean total radio silence."

"I told them not to contact me. All four of them agreed." I wrapped my hands around the mug, grateful for the heat. "I half expected Calix to break by
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  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 60

    Calla's POVSeven days of silence from four numbers that used to light up like fireworks, and I'd asked for every single one of them."You didn't have to actually enforce it," Jade said, setting a mug down in front of me at her kitchen table, steam curling up between us. "A week off from Blackthorn chaos doesn't usually mean total radio silence.""I told them not to contact me. All four of them agreed." I wrapped my hands around the mug, grateful for the heat. "I half expected Calix to break by day three.""Give him credit. He hasn't." Jade dropped into the chair across from me, eyebrows raised. "That's either real restraint or he's saving it up for something dramatic.""Don't jinx it.""So." She leaned forward in her chair, her elbows now propping up her face on her hands. "Seven days. What did you actually do with them that was so important you couldn’t just send a text when it wasn't being texted in the first place?"I dragged my laptop to the side of the table in front of me, tilt

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 59

    Calla's POVThree years of marriage rewrote themselves in the space of one sentence, and I stood in that doorway watching it happen in real time, unable to stop it or look away."I knew before the wedding." Daven's voice hadn't dropped at all since I'd walked in. If anything, it had gotten steadier, like saying it out loud a second time cost him less than the first. "I knew the bond might have reached further than me, and I married you anyway without telling either of you."No one moved. I felt the room waiting, all four of them, like my response determined something that none of us could take back later."Say something," Calix’s voice was low, carefully so, like you’d talk to someone about to step onto a balcony ledge.I had nothing to say. I stood there with my heart pounding against my ribs so loudly I couldn't even hear my own thoughts beneath it, every conceivable reply rushing to my throat at once, and none of them completing themselves to get out of my mouth in any reasonable w

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 58

    Calla's POVMy phone rang four times before I could even put down my tea on Jade’s counter, the name in each message flashing up one after another as everyone had simultaneously hit send.Daven: We need to talk. Tonight.Calix: Whatever you’ve heard, allow me to explain first.Knox: Told them. Was never going to let you hold it all yourself anyway.Soren: I apologize. For everything. You deserve to hear everything from my mouth.As the last message faded off the screen, I remained glued to the spot with a mug of now-cold tea in my hand. The more I read them, the less sense they made."What's wrong?" Jade appeared in the doorway, towel still in her hands from the dishes, reading my face the way she always did before I'd said a single word out loud."I don't know." My voice came out thin. "Something happened. All four of them are texting me at once, and none of it makes sense without whatever context I'm missing."Jade crossed the kitchen fast, phone-free hand landing on my shoulder, st

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 57

    Soren's POVThree sets of eyes locked onto me, and I understood, standing there with my own silence hanging in the air like an accusation, that I had exactly one choice left to actually make.Tell them. Or keep carrying it alone the way I'd carried it for eleven years, watching it rot everything it touched from the inside while I told myself silence was somehow safer than the truth."Soren." Daven's voice again, quieter now, careful in a way that scared me more than anger would have. "Whatever this is. I need you to say it."My hands had started shaking. I pressed them flat against my own thighs, an old trick from residency, grounding myself the way you learn to when a patient's chart tells you something you have to say out loud whether the family is ready to hear it or not."The bond reached me first," I said.Nobody moved. Nobody breathed, from what I could tell, the whole room gone so still that I heard my own pulse hammering in my ears louder than any of the words I still had left

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 56

    Calix's POVThe room split in half before the rest of us could get another breath.Daven moved first, three rapid strides toward Knox as if his body had already made up its mind about something his brain was still chewing on. Anger and grief twisted into his face as one.I wasn’t even sure which one had pushed him to act first. I stayed exactly where I was, rooted to the same spot on the carpet, because some ugly, immediate part of me had already sorted Knox's confession into a box labeled worse than mine, and I hated myself for doing math like that in a moment that deserved better from all of us.“You let pack corner her. In our house. And left her.” Daven's voice had roughed, cracked in a way I'd heard him sound twice before."I did." Knox didn't flinch from it, didn't soften it, didn't offer a single word of cushioning to make it easier for Daven to hear."How do we even begin to..." Daven stopped himself, dragging a hand down his face, and for a second he just stood there, breathi

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 55

    Daven's POV"Everyone. Now. My study." That was the full message I sent to three people at once without explanation, and within eleven minutes, all three of them stood in front of me, and that told me how deep into this we already were in a way nothing I could have put into words could.Calix arrived first, jaw tightened, his tie a full inch loosened from its knot as though he’d half-pulled it off himself in the car.Soren was just a moment behind him, still, watchful, already loitering near the door. Knox arrived third, sawdust coating his forearms. He just leaned on the wall and waited for someone else to start."Mara," I said, no preamble, watching all three of their faces for the reaction. "Say it out loud so I know none of us are imagining this.""Mara," Calix repeated, flat, and something in his voice cracked right down the middle of the word. "I've had my own account frozen since last night. Locked out of the discretionary fund an hour after I started tracing it back to her.""

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