The alpha’s claim のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 49

Asher pulled her into her apartment the moment they reached their destination.
His grasp on her wrist was tight and uncomfortable.She tried to wriggle out of his hold as she complained, but he didn’t budge.“You’re hurting me,” she complained, trying to hit him and pull back.“Good,” he said without looking back.She felt awful. He was manhandling her, and she didn’t like it. She was grateful that she had removed her heels immediately after they entered the car. She had felt stuffed.If she hadn’t, with the way he was pulling her, she would have broken a leg.She felt the heat coming off his body. It felt intimidating. It was scary.He looked and felt suddenly scary.It was like she was feeling his anger. She couldn’t exactly explain that, though, but she knew.He threw her onto the first couch they approached. She fell hard into it, her hair scattering and covering her face. She almost hit her head.“The hell, Ash? Stop!” she screamed.“I haven’t even started yet,” he said as he mad

Everything wasn’t normal. In fact, in the past months, everything had been a little bit too confusing.
For instance, why was there a rose and a handwritten note on the desk she usually sat on?
She didn’t even look at what was in it. She reluctantly brought the rose to her nose and smelt it, but that was that.
She was worried—a couple of things were really bugging her, and she wasn’t about to treat them as nothing anymore.
She could swear she saw him stiffen the moment she asked him that question. She took him unawares, and just when she was about to be sure that he was hiding something, he chuckled.
What was he?
Who was he?
What was he hiding?
It was almost the end of the semester, exams were approaching, and she couldn’t be more happy. Though she worried ifshe should be. With Asher in her life now, it seemed to turn a full 360 in nothing more than a minute.
She was deep in thought, and she genuinely didn’t know when her friends came in and sat down beside her. Of course, they heard h

The familiar black limousine pulled up in front of her house.Aria couldn’t handle the loud pounding in her chest as she looked at the car.She wanted to chicken out and run.She had asked him several times to tell her where she would stay, but he only chuckled.And she wouldn’t exactly say that it was a reassuring chuckle.A man dressed in black from head to toe came out of the car and bowed at her. She felt shy at his gesture.“Hello,” she said to him.“Hello ma’am, please permit me to carry your bag,” he said to her, and she nodded frantically.“Of course, thank you,” she said as she let go of the box handle. “And I’m not ma’am. Please call me Aria.”He only bowed to her and went away with her box.She looked at the car. The windows were tinted; she couldn’t see a thing from outside, and that only made her heartbeat pick up again.Was he watching her through the window?She walked slowly to the car, and the same man hurriedly came in front of her and opened the door.She bowed than

At 6 p.m., Aria walked down the stairs just as she was instructed to three hours ago.
She looked around the house, but she couldn’t catch a glimpse of anyone.
She wondered where everyone had gone to.
On reaching the dinner table, even Asher wasn't there.
Yet. She told herself.“Hello?” she called, but only her voice echoed.
She sighed and walked to the dinner table.Her eyes widened as she took in the sight of so much food on the table. There was a lot—and all of it she could eat?
She wondered, completely amazed but positively.She sat down and waited.
She was in a much brighter mood.
She felt she was in a brighter mood. She hoped Asher wouldn’t guess she was up to something. He wouldn’t, she thought. Unless he was a magician.She heard him coming down, and she felt her heart beginning to pound.
Aria was dumbfounded. Could her heart ever learn to not react whenever a good man was around?Once he came into view, he stopped in his tracks as if someone had just called his name.
He looked

She lazily put on a dress. It was red and knee length.She looked at herself in the mirror again with contempt.She didn’t like it either, but it was the 6th dress she had tried on. She knew Asher wouldn’t be so pleased with her if she wasted his time.He always kept to time, so she knew there was a high possibility that he was already waiting for her downstairs and only keeping his cool because it was 7:30am on the dot yet.The dress wasn’t bad. She didn’t want anyone to think she was trying to pull their attention towards her.The dress was fitted but it was decent. Her chest was covered up very well and the slit behind wasn’t too deep.She nodded at her frame through the mirror.“This would do,” she said in affirmation.Her hair was already pulled back in an almost neat ponytail and she had a lip gloss on.That was the most she could do for the sake of making up.Aria grabbed her bag and went out the door. She wondered if he was already outside.Immediately she got down, she heard