All Chapters of Craving The Cruel Alpha: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

⚠️ EXPLICIT CHAPTER WARNING ⚠️This chapter contains graphic sexual content and dark themes.If you’re under 18 or uncomfortable with explicit scenes, do not read this chapter.Chapter 11Vermont’s POVThe room Adrian had prepared looked normal at first.At first glance, it looked like every other room in the palace. Same walls. Same quiet. Same faint smell of polish and old stone. I almost missed it until my eyes landed on the bed.Instead of the four-post curtains every other room had, this one was bare. Chains hung from each end, thick and heavy, bolted so tight they wouldn’t come loose no matter how hard I pulled.I stopped just inside the doorway.“Do you like it?”Adrian’s voice came from behind me and I exhaled through my nose before letting out a short laugh, “Do I like it?” I repeated, not turning around. “You’re asking me if I like getting chained to a bed.”He chuckled as he stepped into the room, like this was all casual. Like it wasn’t fucked up.“Just saying,” he shrugge

Chapter 14 – Vermont’s POVThe room wouldn’t stop spinning.I barely felt myself go down, my knees giving out as I crumpled to the floor, breath tearing out of my chest in loud, ugly heaves. My palms hit the stone, cold biting into my skin, but even that didn’t drag me back to reality.“That’s a fucking lie,” I whispered, more to myself than anyone else. “Lilith would never. Lilith would never have sex with you.”My head shook on its own, slow and desperate.“I didn’t imagine her,” I said hoarsely. “She wouldn’t... she wouldn’t.”“We did,” Adrian’s voice cut in, flat and relentless. “For a year. A whole year.”His words blurred together, sinking into me like poison.“After she got pregnant, I wanted us to elope. She didn’t. She wanted to get rid of the baby, but she couldn’t when she found out it was your firstborn and she’d die during the process.” He swallowed, wincing in pain. “So she decided to pretend it was yours.”His voice kept going, but I barely heard it.“She loved me,” I p