All Chapters of Claimed by My Bestie's Alpha Daddy: Chapter 281 - Chapter 290

I went back to my apartment. Mine. The one with the uneven stovetop burner and the coat rack I never hung right. The one I hadn’t stepped foot in since long before my heat, before I started sleeping in someone else’s bed and calling it safety. It felt strange walking back in like nothing had changed

We hadn’t spoken in any way that mattered. Not about the truth, not about what it meant, and certainly not about what came next. Richard had accepted the council’s decision to name me joint commander without protest or hesitation, but he hadn’t looked at me, truly looked at me, since the day I found

The chapel was colder than I remembered. The old stone walls held the night air like grief; damp, heavy, and quietly unforgiving. My boots echoed on the marble floor as I followed the Elder through the corridor, passing locked rooms and dormant altars, surrounded by air that smelled like ash, candle

The Mooncut felt heavier in my hands than it had the night I tore it from the gala display. It wasn’t just the weight of alloy and crystal. It was the memory sealed inside it, the shimmer of light through smoke, the copper tang of blood as it spilled across my palm, the sound of gasps through the cr

I signed off on the last of the requisition orders just after sunrise. My eyes burned from reading through half-redacted reports all night, but I didn’t trust anyone else to catch the discrepancies. The Council was a circus, and the wolves still loyal to Richard were busy with containment or spin co