All Chapters of CLAIMED BY MY ALPHA STEPBROTHER.: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

SeraphinaMy hands trembled as those creatures shot toward me. Before I could even react, Azriel grabbed the nearest two boys in a flash and slammed them into the concrete wall.The wall crumbled immediately as Azriel threw another woman right into the two boys.Any normal human would have been dead by now, but these creatures wriggled out of the blocks of cement, their joints popping and bending at impossible, sickening angles, and they dropped to all fours. Growling, their dark, glowing eyes locked right back onto me, they began to crawl across the floor with a monster-like speed."Azriel!" I screamed, throwing myself so hard against the back wall that the brick bit into my spine."I’ve got you," he growled.In a flash, he zoomed past them, waving his hands across their necks so fast I couldn't even see it clearly.It was when he finally stopped, and I saw their bodies drop onto the floor with blood dripping from horrifying, elongated, claw-like fingers, that I knew he'd slit their

SeraphinaThe shadows of the alleyway got scarier even after the three men had disappeared into the darkness. My heart was beating fast against my ribs. I could still feel the aftermath of Azriel’s loud roar.I stepped out from behind his back, my hands trembling as I reached for his arm. His muscles were still tense."Azriel..." My voice was barely a whisper, cracking under the weight of the terror I was trying to hold back. "Who... who were those people? How did they know you? What did that man mean by a cure?"Azriel turned around slowly, the darkness in his brown eyes fading as he cupped my shoulders, his thumbs rubbing soothing circles against my skin."It’s nothing you need to worry about, Seraphina," he said. He didn't sound convincing. "Just ghosts. People from a past that should have stayed dead." He looked back over his shoulder toward the path we had taken. "We’ve been out here for too long. Let's stop here for today. We'll go back to the hideout and wait until tomorrow, an

SeraphinaMy bare feet kept slapping against the wet grass. Branches slashed my skin as I ran through the suffocating darkness of the forest. My lungs hurt with every ragged breath, my heartbeat beating so violently against my ribcage it felt ready to burst free. Sharp stones and rotting pine needles shredded the soles of my bare feet, but the pain barely reached me anymore.All that mattered was running.I could hear deep growls behind me, vibrating through the woods and straight into my bones.I should have been afraid. These creatures—whatever they were, I couldn't see them properly—were howling at me.Why was I even running?I couldn't stop.Everything felt like too much. I could pick up every sound and every smell. Blood, rain, clean air. My legs kept moving faster.How am I so...?I looked down at my legs to find paws instead of feet.Ahhh!!I shrieked in horror and my eyes snapped open.The forest vanished instantly, replaced by blinding white light that burned straight into my

AzrielThe last thing I saw before the darkness took me was her face.It wasn’t real, I knew that, but as the thick, icy fluid from the syringe rushed through my veins, my mind fractured, and Seraphina flashed right in front of my eyes. She was crying, her lips moving as if she were screaming my name, but no sound came out.Then her image shattered. The harsh white lights of the lab blurred into a sickening smear, and the last thing my fading vision caught was Vane’s face. He was looking down at me, his mouth twisted into a mocking, triumphant grin.I failed.The thought dragged me down into a heavy darkness.***When I finally woke up, my entire body was on fire.My head throbbed, and my throat was completely parched. I tried to lift my hands to rub my temples, but I couldn’t move. A heavy, metallic clink echoed through the room.I opened my eyes, blinking quickly to adapt to the harsh brightness of the fluorescent lights above. I wasn't lying on the concrete floor anymore. Instead,

AzrielFour days turned into five. Five turned into a week.Ethan didn’t come back.With every passing second, the fragile hope that had flared up in my chest began to curdle into a fear. The silence of the isolation room grew heavier, louder, mocking me. I stared at the blank steel door until my eyes burned, waiting for a click that never came.A terrible, dark spiral swallowed my thoughts. 'They caught him,' I told myself, my fingers twitching weakly against the silver restraints. Vane found out, and they killed him. The agonizing guilt returned with a vengeance, wrapping its hands around my throat. I had caused the deaths of my entire squad in Bogotá, and now, because I was too weak to save myself, I had dragged my best friend into the grave with me a second time.Or worse. Maybe Ethan had just thought about it logically and realized the truth. Maybe he realized that saving a monster—a broken, unstable weapon who had slaughtered his own brothers and was now completely obsessed with