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Chapter 18: Amelia

last update publish date: 2025-11-14 04:13:51

The door closed with a soft click, and I let out the breath I'd been holding. Alone at last. My ribs ached with each inhale, and the throbbing in my skull kept perfect time with my pulse. Just days ago I'd been a servant girl in Silver Lake, scrubbing floors and swallowing humiliation, then I'd discovered my wolf and run for freedom, only to be captured by rogues. Yesterday I'd been a prisoner awaiting execution. And now? Now I was the claimed and marked mate of the Alpha King himself, a man I'
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  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #37: Amelia

    He began to move, slowly at first, with careful, measured thrusts that spoke of his lingering fear of hurting me. But my body remembered his, knew exactly how we fit together. Each stroke sent pleasure spiralling through me, building with each careful retreat and deliberate advance.“More,” I urged him, fingers digging into his shoulders. “I’m not going to break, Lukas.”Something shifted in his eyes, a flash of gold signalling Ares’s approval, and his rhythm changed. He drove into me with new purpose, angling his hips until he found that spot inside me that made stars explode behind my eyes.“There,” I gasped, throwing my head back against the tile. “Right there.”He adjusted, ensuring each thrust hit that perfect spot, watching my face with predatory focus. The pressure built within me, a coiling tension that demanded release. I slid one hand between our bodies, finding the sensitive bundle of nerves where we were joined.The additional stimulation pushed me cl

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #36: Amelia

    The walk back to our bedroom was quiet, our fingers intertwined but our minds still processing the weight of words exchanged. With each step down the palace corridors, I felt the distance between us shrinking, though not yet gone completely. Athena had settled within me, her copper presence curled contentedly closer to Ares’s golden warmth through our bond.The fight wasn’t forgotten, couldn’t be forgotten, but the sharp edges had dulled, leaving behind something we could both hold without bleeding.The guards stationed outside our chambers bowed their heads respectfully, their eyes carefully averted. I wondered briefly what rumours were already circulating about our argument in the forest, about the King chasing his Queen through the trees. Palace walls had ears, and forest floors had eyes. By morning, everyone would know something had fractured between us, even if they didn’t know the details.Lukas pushed the door open, his hand on the small of my back as he guided me

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #35: Lukas

    She unfolded her arms, letting them fall to her sides in a subtle mirror of my own open posture. “And you need to understand that I’m not some fragile human who needs a big strong wolf to protect her. I have Athena. I survived poisoning during the challenge. I killed Lysander with my own teeth. I am not weak, Lukas.”“I know you’re not weak,” I said, the words coming out more forcefully than I’d intended. I moderated my tone with effort. “You’re the strongest person I’ve ever met. That‘s not what this is about.”“Then what is it about?” she challenged. “If you know I’m strong, if you know I can handle myself, why do you keep trying to shield me from everything?”The question stripped me bare, forced me to confront something I’d been avoiding even in my own thoughts. “Because I’m terrified,” I admitted

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #34: Lukas

    I followed Amelia back to my office, the weight of her fury preceding her like a physical force. Each step she took seemed to leave scorch marks on the stone floor, her shoulders rigid beneath the borrowed guard’s cloak. Ares whined within me, confused and agitated. ‘Why mate angry?’ he kept asking, genuinely bewildered. ‘Protected her. Killed threats.’ I couldn’t make him understand what was so clear to my human half—that protection without respect wasn’t protection at all. It was control. And I had promised her, sworn to her, that I would never try to control her again.The door to my office stood ajar, as if expecting our arrival. Amelia pushed it open without hesitation, the heavy wood creaking in protest. She didn’t wait for me, didn‘t look back to see if I followed. She simply assumed I would, and of course, she was right. I would follow her anywhere—across continents, into b

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #33: Lukas

    I turned and sprinted toward the stairs leading down to the dungeons, taking them three at a time, my bare feet silent on the cold stone. Guards stationed at intervals straightened as I passed, but I ignored them, focused solely on reaching the cells below.The dungeon’s chill wrapped around me as I descended the final staircase, the torchlight casting long shadows across ancient stone walls. I heard her before I saw her, or rather, I heard the unmistakable weight of a Command in her voice, a pressure in the air that made my ears pop as I approached the occupied cell.“Tell me about the tea,” she was saying, her voice carrying that double-timbre that meant Athena was riding her hard, their consciousness so merged that it was impossible to tell where the human ended and the wolf began. “What herbs? What chemicals? How does it work?”I rounded the corner and froze at the sight before me. Amelia st

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #32: Lukas

    I shifted into Ares with a howl of desperation, golden fur erupting across my skin as bones cracked and reformed. Her scent trail was already fading, copper and cinnamon carried away by the night wind. Ares surged forward, his consciousness tangling with mine as we raced after our mate. ‘She left us,’ he snarled within my mind, confusion and rage warring in his thoughts. ‘How dare she leave when we protect.’ I growled back at him, pushing through the undergrowth with punishing speed. This was his fault, our fault, and the realization sat like poison in my veins.‘Shut up,’ I snapped at my wolf as we vaulted over a fallen tree. ‘This is your doing. Our doing.’Ares’s fury bubbled beneath my skin, his golden presence bristling with indignation. ‘Protected mate. Killed threats. Did what Alpha should.’The forest blurred around us, moonlight filtering through the canopy in patches that illuminated our path in fractured silver. I pushed harder, my massive paws digging into the soft earth,

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #26: Lukas

    I watched Amelia rise from her throne with regal grace, her spine straight, her chin lifted in that way that still took my breath away after all these months. There was nothing of the servant girl left in her now—only the Queen, the Alpha female, the mate who had fought through poison and treache

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  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #17: Lukas

    The moment I saw the dart protruding from Amelia's shoulder, something in me snapped. Red washed across my vision as Ares surged forward, a tidal wave of protective fury that threatened to drown my human consciousness. My claws extended without conscious thought, teeth sharpening behind lips pull

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  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #19: Lukas

    I gripped the balcony railing so tightly the stone might have cracked beneath my fingers. Nearly six hours of watching Amelia fight through the effects of wolfsbane had left me raw, every muscle in my body coiled with the need to intervene. When Lysander finally shifted, a cruel smile twisted my

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  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #24: Lukas

    I watched Amelia dress for the council meeting with equal parts pride and concern. Less than twenty-four hours had passed since she'd snapped Lysander's neck in the arena, yet here she was, insisting on returning to royal duties as if yesterday had been nothing more than a minor inconvenience. Th

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