All Chapters of Claimed by the Ruthless Alpha Prince: Chapter 391 - Chapter 400

Billie POV)My heart couldn’t stop pounding, my fists clenched as I swallowed the humiliation of Gavin’s rage. His harsh voice rang in my ears. Thinking about how his eyes latched onto me made the hair on the back of my neck prickle. Then, I was hit with a flash of David taking away my binoculars and grounding me. The tone of Catrina’s voice as she mocked me. It was all too much for me to swallow down like I usually did. Something wild roared within me, anger as electrical as the excitement I’d felt watching the hunt, as uncontrollable as my heartbeat. It swelled hotly in my throat and coiled in my head like a viper.What gave Gavin the right to talk to me that way? I hadn’t done anything except look at him.I wished desperately that I could fire something back, but I knew it wouldn’t matter what I’d say. I’d get out one, maybe two sentences before he would pick me up and crush my bones. I was helpless to assert myself, but that didn’t mean I didn’t deserve to be heard, right…? Or may

Gavin POV)Sounds of crackling fire infused the otherwise silent campsite. Shredded fabric tinged with blood was caught in the grass and bushes, and metal rods and a slickened knife glinted on the ground. Orange glow flickered against the trees and cast a long shadow beneath my feet, where above, I crouched with my head in the cooler, crunching through the plastic packaging of the campers’ food. The blood mostly smelled like my own; I remembered clamping down on a sleeve, only to be stabbed in the gums and sliced on the shoulder with the knife. I’d let the campers flee after the pain gave me a flash of clarity, but the instant they were gone and the smell of cooking meat took my attention, hunger enveloped me. I couldn’t stop myself. I ate everything I could see.The sting of my bloodied gums only flared up after the carnage. Plastic was not easy on the teeth. If I’d been thinking rationally, I wouldn’t have reduced myself to devouring the campers’ food like a mutt with its snout in t

Billie POV)For the second time in little more than twelve hours, I festered in my room after facing Gavin Steele. This time, I was convinced there was nobody he hated more than me, and it was inevitable that I’d soon face worse consequences than cruel words. He wanted me dead. I didn’t blame him.The moment I recognized what was happening in my Moondream, I knew I was screwed. It should have been cause for celebration that I’d finally gotten my wolf. Instead, it felt like the end of my life.The dream had led me to him. I soared through the forest on four paws, lighter and faster than ever before, finally free. My body was no longer bound in a human shell, but liberated into the wilderness; my senses primed, I could smell everything, hear everything, feel everything that the forest called me into. My wolf was alive.And then I saw… him. Wreathed in firelight, stinking of blood and sweat and oils, was the timber brown pelt of Gavin Steele. He snarled as he snapped his teeth at the sha

GPOVavin )“You’re a power to be reckoned with,” David said to me in the parlor. “You’re a threat to everything in the Gunnison area, and I admire that. But that’s why we need to merge Grandbay and Dalesbloom as soon as possible. Once you share the responsibilities of your pack with me, Gavin, you won’t be pressured to take on your duties alone. You attacked those campers because you had nobody else to set your instincts straight. Don’t you see, Gavin? If you had spent the night with Catrina, or if you’d gone to take care of my shipment, you wouldn’t have turned into a savage monster while you were alone in the woods. Doesn’t it make more sense—for everyone’s safety—to begin integrating your pack with mine?”I was being scolded like a child. The calm in David’s voice didn’t hide his pompous undertones; he was using my loss of control against me. Resisting the merge would only make me vulnerable to more outbursts in the future, but to agree felt like I was forfeiting my pack. I couldn

Swaddled in the night sounds of crickets and frogs, I ventured deep into the trees. Mosquitoes flocked to me but didn’t bother me too badly. I found a trail that the wolves used to navigate the forest and followed that to a clearing where moonlight lit up the grass into silky pearlescent strands. There I gingerly removed my clothes, bathing in the light of the Moon Goddess. My beast inside no longer raked anxiously to escape, but sat comfortably with me in the silence, merely waiting for me to feel ready. I breathed slowly. It was time to channel my wolf.My body jerked and blossomed with pain. I wasn’t used to the immense strain transforming put on me, not yet; as my bones cracked and fused back together, I cried out and fell to the grass. My skin burned as my fine hairs grew out into dense fur. My anatomy changed, elongating my arms and legs, and extending my spine with new vertebrae. As my ears migrated to the top of my skull and my nose turned leathery and wet, I felt myself becom