บททั้งหมดของ Claimed By The Ruthless Alpha : บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

Zara's POV"No! Please, where are you taking him?!" I yelled and ran toward the two soldiers pulling my father away. Their hands squeezed tight on his arms. He tried to fall, but they yanked him up. My feet pounded the ground. My chest hurt."Stop! He didn't do anything wrong!" My voice cracked as I reached for him. One of the guards shoved me back hard. I stumbled, my shoulder hitting the wall. Pain shot through me, but I pushed myself forward again. "Please, just tell me what he did!"My father's face was pale, drained of color. Sweat covered his forehead. He'd been sick for weeks, barely able to leave his bed. Most days, he couldn't even sit up without help. How could they accuse him of anything?"Zara, stay back." His voice was weak, barely a whisper."No!" I lunged forward again, desperate to reach him. This time, two guards grabbed my arms before I got close. Their claws dug into my skin. I struggled against them, twisting and pulling with everything I had, but they held me in p

Zara's POV"Listen up, everyone!" The head maid's voice rang through the servants' quarters, sharp and commanding. We all stopped what we were doing and turned to face her.She stood at the front of the room, her hands on her hips, her face looked stern. "The young mistress wants everyone to be on their best behavior today. One of the most powerful Alphas in the district is visiting for dinner tonight. Alpha Kael Northwood himself."Whispers broke out among the servants. Alpha Kael. Everyone knew that name. He was young, powerful, and commanded respect across all the packs in the region."I don't want to hear any complaints," the head maid continued. "You will all look presentable. You will serve with your heads down. You will not speak unless spoken to. Do I make myself clear?""Yes, ma'am," we all said in unison."Good. Now get yourselves ready. We have less than three hours."The servants scattered, rushing to their tasks. I stood there for a moment, my mind already dreading the ev

Zara's POV"Can I take her too?"The words hung in the air.My heart stopped, and my breath caught in my throat. Did he just... did the Alpha just ask to take me?I stared at him, my eyes wide with shock. His silver eyes met mine, and I gulped down nothing.Marcus Drake's laugh broke the silence. It was loud and forced, like he was trying to cover up his own surprise."Take her?" He laughed again, shaking his head. "Alpha Kael, surely you're joking. That one? She's nothing but a menace."My stomach twisted. I kept my eyes down, my hands clenched into fists at my sides."Her father was a traitor," Marcus continued, his voice turning cold. "Her father, Garrett Ashford, conspired with rogues to kill our Alpha King. He was plotting against the pack, meeting with enemies in the night. We had no choice but to execute him."Lies. It was all lies.My chest burned with the need to scream, to tell them the truth. My father was innocent. He'd been sick, bedridden for weeks. He couldn't have met

​Kael's POV​The dining room felt different than it had just an hour ago because the warmth of the meal had evaporated and replaced itself with a heavy and suspicious tension that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and as I stood by the large windows I kept trying to catch that sweet scent of honey and cream that belonged to Zara but it was being drowned out by the smell of expensive perfume and the lingering aroma of roasted meat. Marcus was sitting back in his chair and sipping a glass of brandy while looking far too relaxed for a man whose servant had just vanished into thin air, and his daughter Seraphina was busy smoothing out the wrinkles in her emerald dress while refusing to look me in the eye.​"I find it very strange that a girl who has lived here her entire life would just pack up and leave in the middle of the night without saying a word to anyone, especially after she made such a scene at my dinner table," I said while turning away from the window and walking

Zara's POV​The world was spinning and my ears were ringing so loudly that I couldn't even hear my own breathing, and as the metal box settled at the bottom of the ravine I felt a sharp piece of wood poking through one of the air holes and scraping against my shoulder. I tried to push myself up but my fingers were throbbing with such an intense heat that I almost blacked out again, and I remembered the way Seraphina had ground her heel into my hand back at the house and I realized that at least three of my fingers were definitely broken. I could hear shouting coming from high above me on the road where the carriage had first tipped over, and there were sounds of metal clashing and men screaming in agony that didn't sound like the guards who had been driving me.​"Check the wreckage and see if the girl survived the fall because the boss wants her alive for the auction, and don't let any of those Nightshade dogs get away to tell the tale!" a raspy voice yelled from the top of the slope,