All Chapters of Claimed by the silverfang alphas : Chapter 171 - Chapter 173

THE PARK~TATE'S POV~Fall in the Pacific Northwest was less of a season and more of a threat. The wind had teeth, the rain was constant, and the sun clocked out at 4:00 PM.I tightened my scarf, burying my chin in the wool. My bag weighed a ton, filled with a Constitutional Law textbook that was thick enough to stop a bullet. I was walking back from the campus library to the Safehouse.Mathias was there. Waiting.Just the thought of him made my step lighter. He had been back for three days, and we had spent most of them in bed, re-learning the maps of each other's bodies. He was still edgy...the vampire instincts didn't just turn off....but he was home.I took the shortcut through Miller's Park.It was a small, sad little patch of green sandwiched between two brick apartment buildings. During the day, students played frisbee here. At twilight? It was empty. Just the creak of the swing set chains in the wind and the rustle of dead leaves.I kept my head down, walking fast. Edward

THE NEW NORMAL~TATE'S POV~The smell of bacon woke me up.For a second, I panicked. I thought the apartment was on fire again. I sat up, checking my hands, but there were no glowing veins, no sparks, no white-hot plasma. Just regular skin.I let out a breath and flopped back onto the pillows. The bed was empty, but the sheets on both sides were rumpled.I climbed out of bed, threw on a robe, and padded out to the kitchen.It looked like a normal Sunday morning. Or, as normal as it gets when your boyfriends are apex predators living in an off-campus luxury apartment.Daxon was sitting at the island, shirtless, eating scrambled eggs straight out of the pan because he refused to dirty a plate. Mathias was standing by the stove, flipping pancakes. He was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, looking annoyingly awake."You're burning them," Daxon said with his mouth full."I am caramelizing them," Mathias corrected without looking back. "There is a difference. Also, use a fork, you animal.""Forks