All Chapters of The Alpha's claim : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

The Decision ***”I was lying there when the door opened.I didn’t turn at once.I already knew who it was.I had heard those steps too many times.Xavier.He walked in alone.No tray.No one behind him.Just him.He stopped beside the bed and looked at me.“How are you feeling?” he asked.I pushed myself up a little. It took effort, but I didn’t want to look weak in front of him.“I’m better,” I said.He nodded.Then he stayed quiet.Just looking at me.Like he was waiting for something.After a while, he spoke again.“Tell me what happened.”That was it.Straight.No soft words.No going around it.Just the truth sitting between us.My fingers tightened on the sheet.For a moment, I almost said it.Everything.The push.The fall.The blood.Lucia.All of it.It was right there.I could feel it rising in my throat.But something stopped me.It wasn’t fear alone.It was more than that.What if he doesn’t believe me?What if he goes back and tells Logan?What if it changes nothing?Wh

Humiliated *****By this time, I already understood something clearly.This place was no longer trying to correct me.It was trying to break me.Not in one moment. Not in one action. But slowly, quietly, every single day.Days passed, and nothing became easier.If anything, everything became heavier.The way people looked at me changed first. Before, they used to whisper behind my back. Now, they did not even bother hiding it anymore.“She is the one.”“The cursed girl.”“Nothing has been right since she came.”I heard all of it.Every word. Every tone. Every meaning behind it.Sometimes I passed by them, and they stopped talking. Other times, they continued like I was not even there. Like I had already been reduced to something less than human.But I did not react.I could not afford to.Silence became the only thing I had control over.And I held on to it.That morning, I was in the servant quarters, doing what had now become my daily routine.Working.Moving from one task to anoth

The Night She Was Rejected *****The entire pack was awake before sunrise.It was not just noise. It was something deeper than that. Movement had purpose. Voices carried intention. Everyone knew what today meant, and no one was taking it lightly.Today was the mating ceremony.I stayed where I belonged.The servant quarters.No one told me to stay away, but no one needed to. Some things did not have to be said out loud. You simply understood your place.Still, even from there, I could hear them.“The Alpha will mark her tonight.”“The Moon Goddess will witness it.”“She will finally become Luna.”Lucia.Everything was about Lucia.I kept working.I washed. I cleaned. I moved from one task to another, but my mind refused to stay with my hands. It kept drifting back to that night. The wound. The blood. The moment my hands touched him and something inside me responded.Something no one talked about.Something no one noticed.But I felt it.And it did not feel right.By midday, another p

The One They Couldn’t Break *****I do not know how long I stayed on the ground.Time stopped making sense after a while. It stretched… then folded into itself until everything felt the same. One moment. One weight. One endless ache that refused to move.No one told me to get up.No one reached out.At some point, people began to leave. Not in a rush. Not all at once. Just slowly, like what had happened to me was no longer worth watching. Like the scene had ended and they were done with it.Their voices faded first.Then their footsteps.Then even their presence.Until the space around me felt empty again.Only a few guards remained, standing far enough to pretend I was not there, but close enough to make sure I did not forget my place.I stayed where I was.Not because I wanted to.My body simply refused to move.It felt heavier than it should have been, like everything inside me had shut down at once. I tried to push myself up, pressing my palm against the ground, but the strength

What Rose *****They thought it was over.I heard it in the way they turned away. In the way their voices relaxed, like the moment had already passed and there was nothing left to see.No one was watching me anymore.I lay there with my cheek against the ground, blood spreading beneath me, my breath uneven, my body heavy in a way that felt final.For a while, I stayed like that.Not because I wanted to.Because moving felt pointless.Because everything they wanted had already been done.Then my fingers moved.It was small.Barely noticeable.But it was enough.A guard caught it first.“Wait…”His voice came out unsure, like he didn’t trust what he had just seen.The others followed his gaze.Heads turned.The quiet returned, but this time it wasn’t relaxed. It carried weight.I pressed my palm against the ground.The pain came with it, sharp and deep, but it didn’t stop me. It stayed, but it no longer controlled me the way it did before.I pushed again.My arm shook under the effort,