All Chapters of AFTER THE DIVORCE, THE ALPHAS MADE THEIR CLAIMS ON ME. : Chapter 101 - Chapter 105

The Cost of BloodNina’s POVThe heads were sent before sundown.Ryan made sure of it personally.By dusk, ten severed heads had been packed in iron crates lined with burlap and blood-soaked cloth, loaded onto two trucks, and sent north with one surviving runner shackled in the back and just enough breath left in him to deliver the message.Ryan had wanted to nail one to the front gate for dramatic effect. Kaiden, disturbingly practical as ever, had pointed out that sending all ten was more efficient and significantly more difficult for Nate to ignore.In the end, practicality won. By the time the trucks rolled out, the entire lower courtyard had gone quiet.The kind of quiet that spread when a pack watched its Alpha choose blood and understood something fundamental had shifted.No one said it. They didn’t need to.I felt it anyway.In the way, guards stood straighter. In the way conversations stopped when I passed. the way no one met my eyes too long.By the time I stepped back into

What the Bond DemandsNina’s POVBy the time I found Kaiden, I already knew I was too late to make this graceful. Not that there had ever been a graceful version of this conversation.That illusion had died somewhere between Kieran’s expression in the courtyard and the sharp, ugly weight of hearing my own choices said out loud.I should have told them sooner. I knew it in the same cold, immediate way I knew no version of tonight ended cleanly.Kaiden was exactly where he said he’d be.He looked up the second I stepped into the ring. Kaiden always looked still until the moment you realized he’d already noticed everything.By the time I stopped in front of him, the silence had already sharpened into something deliberate.Then looked at me and said, “It’s Axel.”There it was. The last fragile illusion of control is gone in one sentence.I exhaled slowly.“Yes.”The silence stretched too long.I crossed my arms because I needed something to do with them. “You already knew.”“I knew enough

No Good Time for ThisNina’s POVTraining with Kaiden the next morning was unbearable.Not because he was cruel. That would have been easier.Kaiden was worse. He was calm.Perfectly composed in the specific, infuriating way that made every silence feel deliberate and every look feel like a judgment he was too disciplined to voice.I would have almost preferred yelling. It was infuriating. And useful.Within minutes, sweat was already gathering at the base of my spine, and every loose, frayed thought in my head had been burned out by the singular necessity of not getting knocked flat on my back.Kaiden drove me hard. Harder than he had in weeks.Every opening I left, he punished. Every hesitation, he exploited. Every lapse in focus, he turned into a bruising correction.When I missed a block and he clipped my shoulder hard enough to sting, I hissed and stepped back.“What the hell was that?”Kaiden reset his stance. “You dropped your guard.”“Because you’re trying to take my head off.