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Chapter Thirteen: The Truth

Author: Ash Fleming
last update publish date: 2026-03-27 00:19:13

Damien stood very still.

I had seen him absorb difficult information before. Had watched him process Silas's betrayal and the Bloodclaw attack and the carved threat on the trees with that steady alpha composure that made everything seem manageable even when it was not. But this was different. This landed in a place that composure could not reach.

He looked at me standing in the war room in borrowed clothes with dirt still under my fingernails from running through the forest and something in his
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  • Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me   Chapter Thirteen: The Truth

    Damien stood very still.I had seen him absorb difficult information before. Had watched him process Silas's betrayal and the Bloodclaw attack and the carved threat on the trees with that steady alpha composure that made everything seem manageable even when it was not. But this was different. This landed in a place that composure could not reach.He looked at me standing in the war room in borrowed clothes with dirt still under my fingernails from running through the forest and something in his face went through shock and landed somewhere past it into territory I had no map for."Pregnant," he said. Not a question. A word he was testing in his mouth to see if it fit reality."Yes.""You are certain.""Yes."He moved to the map table and put both hands flat on the surface like he needed something solid to hold onto. His shoulders were tight and his breathing had changed and I could not tell if what I was seeing was fear or joy or the collision of both."How long have you known?" he ask

  • Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me   Chapter Twelve: The Escape

    I sat in that diner booth until the sun came up.The waitress refilled my coffee three times and asked twice if I was okay and I told her I was fine with the kind of smile that convinced nobody but which she accepted because working overnight at a mountain diner probably taught you not to push too hard on people who looked like they were running from something.I was running from something. I just was not sure anymore if I was running from danger or toward it or if the distinction even mattered when the thing pulling at you from the inside did not care about safety or strategy or any of the practical concerns that used to guide every decision you made.The pregnancy sat in my awareness like a fact I kept trying to set down and which kept following me. I had no proof beyond the knowing. No test, no symptoms yet, nothing medical or confirmable. Just the bone-deep certainty that something had changed in my body in a way that was irreversible and enormous and that I had no context for man

  • Claimed By The Alphas Who Betrayed Me   Chapter Eleven: Bloodclaw's Attack

    The first wave hit the western perimeter with the kind of coordinated violence that told me immediately this was not a raid.This was an invasion.I had never seen a pack attack before. Had never been in the middle of wolf combat where the air itself seemed to turn sharp and dangerous and every second was measured in blood and territory and survival. The Ironfang wolves shifted and moved to defensive positions with a speed that was both beautiful and terrifying, forming a living wall between the compound and the incoming threat.Silas grabbed my arm and pulled me toward the nearest cabin."Get inside," he said. "Lock the door. Do not come out until someone you know tells you it is safe.""Where are you going?""To do what I should have done weeks ago." He looked at me with something that might have been regret or resolve or both. "If I do not make it through this, tell Damien I was trying to protect the pack. Even if he does not believe it."He shifted mid-run and disappeared into the

  • 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

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