Lahat ng Kabanata ng Claimed by the Wolf King of Another World: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 13

ZoeyThe bell kept tolling—low, deliberate, like the palace had a heartbeat and wanted everyone to feel it.Kaia’s hand hovered near the spiral in my wall. Jarek had gone statue-still at the door. Milo’s grin dialed down to “I’m listening,” which I was learning was his version of serious.“That’s the Council bell,” Kaia said. “They’re already talking about you.”“Great,” I said. “Love being agenda item one.”Cold slipped under the threshold. Not a draft—a presence. Frost webbed out along the stone like lace deciding it was dangerous. The runes brightened, then flattened to a wary glow.Jarek’s shoulders angled, subtle but lethal. “Hold,” he said to the wall, and the spiral warmed beneath my palm, as if the den slid its weight to brace us.A second later, the sigil flared. The door didn’t open.But the temperature dropped anyway.She arrived like winter changing its mind—no squeak of hinge, no jostle of boot. One heartbeat the air was ours; the next it was threaded with snow and high-a

ZoeyThe bell’s echo still sat in my bones like leftover thunder. Elena’s talk of mates and pups hadn’t helped. My brain was running the hamster-wheel Olympics and the hamster was losing.Alexander had left without a defense or denial—just… gone—like a storm corked in a bottle. Embarrassment and nerves simmered under my skin until Elena, saint of good timing, nudged me into her garden.It was another world tucked inside stone—rows of herbs glowing under rune-light, beds edged with carved spirals that pulsed like quiet heartbeats. Bees drifted as if time had softened for them alone; the air smelled like rosemary, cedar, and something sweet-bitter that tasted like secrets when I breathed too deeply.“Gardens,” Elena said, brushing silvery leaves, “are the only kingdoms I still trust. They don’t lie. They only grow.”Hard to argue with truth that smelled this good.She slipped a sprig of something cool and sharp into my palm. “Courage. If it won’t answer, chew. The taste alone will distr