CHAPTER 171: The New Dominion

Smoke still curled from the mountains when dawn broke, a slow and uncertain light crawling across the scarred horizon. The Vale was no longer the same. What had once been a kingdom of silver rivers and moonlit peaks now bore the scent of ash and blood. But beneath the ruin, life stirred. The ground that had trembled under the Hollow’s wrath was softening again, breathing.Maxim stood upon the remnants of the council hall—its shattered pillars like the ribs of a fallen god—and stared across the valley. The fires from the rebellion had been extinguished at last. Elias’s banners lay torn in the mud, his silver-armored wolves kneeling in defeat or scattering into the forests beyond the ridge. The air itself trembled with exhaustion.“Your command, Alpha,” said Roderic, bowing low. His fur was singed, his voice ragged. “The remaining packs await your decree. They… they say you are all that’s left.”Maxim’s jaw tightened. He did not feel like a victor. His cloak hung heavy with soot, his ha

CHAPTER 172: The Witch Queen's Heart

The Vale still smoldered. Ash drifted through the dawn air like snow, and beneath it the earth pulsed faintly—slow, wounded, alive. Zara stood at the heart of it, barefoot in the soot, her palms pressed to the ground as if listening for a heartbeat too deep for mortal ears. When she breathed, the wind followed. When she blinked, the shadows folded closer.Since the eclipse, her magic no longer obeyed her. It breathed with her, but not for her. The ley lines that once slumbered beneath the Vale were stirring again, slithering through soil and stone, bending toward her like vines seeking sunlight. Every thread of power she’d poured into the fractured seal now looped back, knotting itself into her blood.A sharp ache pulsed behind her ribs. She hid it when Maxim came.His boots crunched softly on the blackened ground, his presence carrying the weight of command even now. The rebellion was over. The old council was gone. He’d been crowned by the surviving packs only hours ago, and yet he

CHAPTER 173: The Beast's Throne

Smoke still clung to the Vale like an old wound refusing to close. From the highest terrace of the ruined council keep, Maxim stood beneath a sky painted in bruised gold, the scent of ash and iron lingering in his lungs. The world below him was trying to breathe again—wolves rebuilding shattered dens, witches tracing new wards into the soil, humans sweeping the bones of war into shallow graves.“Alpha.” The word came from Elias, quiet but steady. He stood at Maxim’s back, silver armor scorched and one arm bound tight. “The packs await your decree. The last of the rebellion banners have fallen.”Maxim’s jaw clenched. “And the dead?”“We burn them with honor. Even the ones who turned.”Good. There had been enough hate to last a hundred winters. Still, when Maxim looked over the blackened sprawl of what had once been the council’s marble heart, he could feel something alive beneath the stone—something vast, watching, waiting. His Beast stirred.The old council’s thrones had been dragged

CHAPTER 174: The Hollow Crown

The night bled silver and smoke over the Vale. The ruins of the old council hall still smoldered, sending up a ghostly mist that clung to the bones of the city like regret. Maxim stood at the balcony of the high chamber—the place that had once belonged to his father—and stared into the dying horizon. The moon hung low and hollow, its light brittle, fractured. Beneath it, his reflection glimmered faintly in the blackened glass, but the eyes that stared back weren’t his.“You built this from fire,” the voice said, deep and smooth, threading through his thoughts like a serpent in silk. “And still you hesitate to claim it.”Maxim’s jaw tightened. He’d grown used to the weight of command, to the ache of scars and the silence of those who had followed him through ruin. But this voice was different. It didn’t belong to the broken halls or to the wind—it belonged to something far older.“I’ve already claimed enough,” he muttered under his breath. “The Vale’s mine. The people—what’s left of th

All Chapters of Beast Billionaire Claim : Chapter 171 - Chapter 174

CHAPTER 171: The New Dominion

CHAPTER 172: The Witch Queen's Heart

CHAPTER 173: The Beast's Throne

CHAPTER 174: The Hollow Crown