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Claiming the Alpha King, Chapter 2: Amelia
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2025-11-28 20:01:00The private dining room felt too small this morning, though nothing had changed since yesterday—same polished wood table, same silver candelabras, same view of the gardens through tall windows. I stirred my coffee without tasting it, watching the cream swirl into patterns that reminded me of blood splattered across stone floors. Lily sat across from me, her amber eyes missing nothing as she methodically worked through a plate of pastries, her health improving visibly with each passing day. Ne
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Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #99 - Lukas
The walk to our bedroom felt endless, each step carrying me further from Amelia, from the one place I needed to be. The palace corridors were nearly empty, most of the staff having been sent to quarters after the Voice’s attack. The few guards I passed snapped to attention, their expressions carefully neutral though I caught the concern in their eyes. News traveled fast in the palace; everyone would know by now what had happened to their queen.Our bedroom was exactly as we’d left it three days ago, the bed still rumpled from our desperate claiming, clothes scattered across the floor where we’d torn them off each other. I moved through the room on autopilot, stripping off my blood-stained shirt, stepping out of my torn trousers. The bathroom mirror showed a stranger’s face, eyes bloodshot, stubble darkening my jaw, a thin cut across my cheekbone from some branch or rock I’d run into during the search.I turned the shower to scalding, stepping under the spray before the water had fully
Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #98 - Lukas
I sat in the chair beside Amelia’s bed, my back a stiff line of tension, my hand carefully wrapped around her cold fingers. Twelve hours. Twelve hours since we’d found her in that clearing, kneeling naked and vacant beneath the blood moon. Twelve hours of watching her chest rise and fall in the shallow rhythm of drugged sleep, of counting each breath as if it might be her last.The medical wing was quiet at this hour, the only sounds the soft beeping of monitors tracking Amelia’s heartbeat, the occasional click of equipment, and my own ragged breathing. I hadn’t left this room since carrying her through the palace doors, my queen’s limp body cradled against my chest, her copper hair tangled across my arm.She looked smaller now, diminished beneath the tangle of leads and wires that tracked her vitals. An IV ran into her arm, delivering a careful mixture of medications designed to help her body clear the poison from her system. Her skin was still unnaturally pale, freckles standing out
Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #97 - Amelia
We found her in a clearing less than two miles from the palace, kneeling in the soft earth with the blood moon directly overhead. For one terrible moment, I thought she was dead; her body too still, her copper hair hanging in a tangled curtain around her face. Then Ares’s senses caught the faintest rise and fall of her chest, the barest whisper of her heartbeat, and my world narrowed to a single, desperate point.Amelia.My mate, my queen, naked and alone in the middle of a forest clearing, her skin painted in bruises and cuts that made something in my chest twist with protective rage. She knelt perfectly still, not even shivering despite the cool night air, her arms limp at her sides, her head bowed as if in submission.I shifted back, running before the transformation had fully completed, crossing the clearing in desperate strides that ate up the distance between us. Behind me, I heard Dominic bark orders to the guards, establishing a perimeter, calling
Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #96 - Amelia
I wasn’t sure how many days I’d been here. Time blurred together, marked only by the injections that set my blood on fire and Sera’s increasingly frequent visits to my cell. Days, certainly. Maybe weeks. The cave walls offered no clues, the single lantern that provided my only light never dimming or brightening to mark the passage of time. All I knew was pain, agony that started in my veins and spread through my muscles until even breathing felt like being flayed alive.They’d given up on the silver cuffs after the first day. I’d struggled so hard against the restraints that I’d nearly dislocated both shoulders, my body fighting even as my mind remained trapped behind the glass wall Sera had built. Now they just kept me heavily drugged, the injections coming more and more frequently as the days passed.Each one hurt worse than the last, the liquid burning through my veins like acid. But the physical pain was nothing compared to the h
Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #95 - Lukas
I paced the length of my office, claws tearing into the carpet with each step. Ares paced with me, his obsidian presence so close to the surface that black fur rippled across my hands, canines pushing against my bottom lip as I fought to maintain even partial control. Three days. Three days since Amelia had run, since I’d watched her disappear into the forest with tears streaming down her face. And now, the night of the second blood moon, we still had nothing.Not a trace of Amelia. Not a single lead on Sera or Sam. Nothing but empty rooms, hollow explanations, and the growing certainty that every second we wasted in the palace was another second Amelia spent in the hands of the Voice.I slammed my fist into the wall, plaster cracking beneath the blow. Pain lanced up my arm, a momentary distraction from the fear that had been eating me alive since I’d watched Amelia’s copper hair disappear between the trees.
Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #94 - Amelia
I woke to cold air biting my skin and a pain in my neck like I’d slept wrong for days. My eyelids felt weighted, my mouth dry and tasting of something metallic and wrong. I blinked, forcing my eyes open against the dim light that made my head throb, and the world slowly swam into focus around me.Stone walls, slick with moisture. A rough wooden desk directly in front of me. The prickling burn of wolfsbane against my wrists, which I realised with a jolt were bound to the arms of the chair I sat in. The silver cuffs gleamed in the low light of the single lantern on the desk, their surfaces etched with patterns that made my stomach turn, protection runes, the kind meant to contain a wolf’s power.I wasn’t alone.“Ah, she’s awake.” The voice came from behind the desk, feminine and tinged with a satisfaction that made my skin crawl.I looked up, and my breath caught in my throat. Across from me sat a woman I’d only see
Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #30: Amelia
I had barely reached the palace's ground floor when I heard the whispers. Two guards, heads bent together, voices hushed but not enough: "the King shifted right in the courtyard—tore off running into the forest like hellhounds were after him." The second guard nodded. "Five of the royal guard fol
Last Updated : 2026-04-05Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #22: Amelia
I woke at 4am, my eyes snapping open in the darkness as if Athena had flipped a switch inside me. The wolfsbane's burn had receded to a dull throb, no longer spreading fire through my veins but leaving its bitter memory etched in every muscle. Beside me, Lukas slept fitfully, his face troubled ev
Last Updated : 2026-04-04Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King Challenging the Alpha Queen #25: Amelia
I lowered myself onto my throne with deliberate grace, refusing to show even a hint of the fatigue that still lingered in my bones. The wolfsbane's poison might not have killed me, but its ghost remained, a dull ache that Athena's accelerated healing hadn't fully conquered. She stirred within me,
Last Updated : 2026-04-04Rejected 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
Last Updated : 2026-04-04
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