Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Dual Claim: Kabanata 171 - Kabanata 180

My phone smashed into pieces when it sailed into the wall.The bitch did it. She was going to pass that bastard pup off as mine and take Silverpine from me.I knew it was coming, but now that it was actually here? All I could think of was putting my hands around her scrawny neck until she confessed to her sinister plan.My fists curled and I let out a deafening roar.Bina burst into the bedroom, quickly assessing me and the new hole in the wall."Lucien, what the fuck!" she cried before running over to the wall to examine the damage.She picked up the pieces of plaster and the plastic that used to be my phone.“What’s going on?”“She had the baby,” I growled, pacing the length o

This was it, the moment I’d been dreading for weeks.Maybe he won’t recognize me.I wanted to hold on to that thought, but knew the likelihood of that was slim to none.I heard Seith call out. “Kane, welcome to Coralridge.”“Seith, good to see you, man,” the deep voice replied.It was then I realized it wasn’t Victor I should have dreaded; it was Kane. I remembered that voice from inside the SUV when they snatched me off the street.He was there.I swallowed hard.I wanted to run, plead illness, go to bed.But I couldn’t do any of those things without calling more attention to myself.“May I introduce you to our Alpha and

The workers quickly pocketed their cash and practically ran out of the villa at the end of their workday. It was the start of the weekend and I’m sure they wanted to go spend it much faster than they earned it.I was thoroughly impressed by their workmanship. I couldn’t tell exactly where I’d put the hole in the wall. Bina would be pleased when she got back from the ragtag coven meeting she was now a part of.Her magick was getting stronger. Still nothing new on the scrying front, but that was what it was. She even paired up with one of her friends and tried, the crystal still pointed right to where we were.I grabbed a couple of beer bottles from the fridge and made my way back out to the patio. The sun neared the horizon, casting the sky in reds, yellows, and oranges.I handed a bottle to the old grizzled wolf shifter, Lin

The nursery didn’t feel right. I know Halia gave me her suggestions as a mother and grandmother, but the more I looked at it, something felt off.I couldn’t pinpoint it, though. I dragged the new glider Gabriel bought for me, and the baby swing, and the stroller, and the car seat, into the center of our room so I could look at Kali’s room without all the extra clutter.“Ah,” I sighed. “That’s it. The crib should be on that wall and the dresser where the crib is.”The crib was on wheels, so that was easy enough to roll out of the way. Once that was done, I lifted one corner of the bureau and inched it out, then walked to the opposite side of the waist-high set of drawers to repeat the process.I would move it little by little.Just as I had the second corner lifted, Elara swept into the room and shrieked like only Elara could.“What are you dooo-ing!” she cried, rushing over to me as if I’d fallen down a cliff. “Are you alright?

Linsus refused to answer me when I asked what he meant about planning. He just told me to use my head instead of my fists. Then he left. Bastard.Plan what? I could only plan day by day. There was no future until I was cured of this damned curse. If I planned or even thought of anything beyond that I was just dreaming at this point.I couldn’t dream, it hurt too much.Every day away from the Pack felt more like a burden and not relief. Sure, I had relief here on the island, but the island still wasn’t Pack lands.I clenched and unclenched my fists. I could feel tension, Pack tension. Kane wasn’t putting out a call, but whatever was happening, it put the Pack on alert. I could still feel it because I didn’t renounce Silverpine, only my role as Alpha. The legal documents were very clear on that.Pulling my phone from my pocket, I logged into the gossip app, hoping to catch some news that explained the on-edge feeling. There wasn’t anything new, just