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Chapter Seven: Desire and Control
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2026-03-22 22:43:51
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Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me Chapter Ten: Betrayal Begins
Damien found Silas an hour later in the weapons shed at the western edge of the compound.I was not supposed to be there. Damien had told me to stay in the main lodge with Maren while he handled it, which was reasonable and which I had agreed to right up until the moment he left and I decided that reasonable did not apply when someone I had started to care about was walking into a confrontation with a man who might be betraying everything.I followed at a distance. Stayed in the shadows between buildings. Moved the way I had moved on a hundred tracking jobs where being seen meant losing the advantage.Luka appeared beside me without warning halfway across the compound."You are terrible at following orders," he said quietly."I never agreed to follow them in the first place.""Fair point." He looked toward the weapons shed. "We should stay back. If this goes wrong and we are standing right there it will make it worse.""How much worse can it get than a trusted pack member selling info
Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me Chapter Nine: The Cracks Appear
They locked down the compound.Not physically. There were no barricades, no gates closing, nothing visible that would look like panic. But I could feel it in the way the pack moved through the hours after midnight—tighter patrols. Wolves stationed at intervals I had not seen before. Lights burning in cabins that should have been dark. The particular tense alertness of people waiting for something bad to happen, and not knowing when it would arrive.I did not sleep.Neither did most of the compound. I could hear movement outside my cabin all through the night, footsteps on gravel, low voices exchanging information, the occasional sound of someone shifting form because a wolf's senses were sharper than a human's, and tonight sharp was what everyone needed.Damien had walked me back to my cabin after the war room revelation and told me to stay inside unless I heard an alarm. I agreed because arguing would have wasted the time he didn't have. But I did not stay inside with the door closed
Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me Chapter Eight: The First Crack
I spent the afternoon avoiding everyone.It was easier than I expected. The compound was large enough that if you knew the patrol schedules and the common gathering times, you could move through it without encountering anyone who wanted to have a conversation about mate bonds or luna responsibilities or the particular way you had looked at the alpha on the ridge path that morning.I was good at avoiding things. I had been doing it professionally for years.What I could not avoid was the mark on my wrist, which had been warm since the ridge and had not stopped. Not painful. Just present. Like a low hum under my skin that I could feel when I paid attention to it and sometimes when I did not.I sat in my cabin as the afternoon light went long and golden through the window and tried to think practically about my situation. The bond was real. The danger from Bloodclaw was real. My growing inability to imagine leaving this territory was becoming real faster than I was comfortable with. I ne
Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me Chapter Seven: Desire and Control
The next morning brought something I had not expected.Breakfast.Not the quiet plate delivered to my door by Maren or one of the pack members who had started treating me like something fragile and important. This was an actual invitation, delivered by Calla, a young woman with bright eyes and restless energy who appeared at my cabin door just after sunrise holding a folded piece of paper."Damien wants you at the main lodge," she said, and then without waiting for a response added, "I am Calla. I have been told to be your friend."I looked at her. "Told by whom?""Maren. But I would have done it anyway. You are the most interesting thing to happen to this pack in five years." She grinned. "Also you made Damien look uncertain, which I have never seen before and which was extremely entertaining."I took the paper. It was not actually an invitation. It was a note in clean, precise handwriting that said only: Morning meal. Main lodge. Bring questions.I looked back at Calla. "Does he alw
Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me Chapter Six: The Space Between Wanting and Choosing
The name hung in the cold air and was gone.I stood on the path for another moment listening, but the voices near the lodge had dropped to nothing and the compound had settled back into its early evening rhythm like a stone dropped into still water, ripples smoothing out until there was no evidence anything had broken the surface at all.Bloodclaw.I knew the name. That was the thing. Every hunter in the network knew it the way sailors knew the names of storms. Not a pack you tracked. Not a bounty you took. A pack you heard about in low voices at the edges of conversations, the kind of story that got told as a warning rather than information. Brutal. Expansionist. A pack that did not operate by any of the codes that kept the werewolf world from spilling into the human one.I had been offered a Bloodclaw job once, eighteen months ago. Double the standard rate. I had turned it down without asking for details, because the broker who offered it had the particular look of a man who was afr
Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me Chapter Five: From Prisoner to Luna
I did not tell anyone about the mark.That was my first decision, made somewhere around two in the morning while the compound slept and I sat on the floor of my cabin with my back against the bed frame and thought through everything I knew and everything I did not know and the very large and uncomfortable territory in between.What I knew: the mark was real. The pull was real. Damien believed it meant something significant and he was not a man who appeared to believe things without evidence. The pack records he had mentioned existed somewhere in that lodge and contained accounts of this happening before.What I did not know: everything else. Why me. What I carried in me that a wolf could apparently recognize when I could not. What completing a bond actually meant in practice. Whether any of this was something that could be undone if I decided I did not want it.Whether I had any say in the matter at all.That last question was the one that kept me on the floor until the sky outside th
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