BRED BY THE ALPHA KINGS のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

Elera:The town didn't exist on any map.Elara had checked three times....once on her phone before the signal died somewhere between the last gas station and the mountains, once on the printed directions her grandmother's lawyer had sent, and once more on the GPS that had given up entirely twenty minutes ago, its screen frozen on a blank stretch of road that supposedly didn't lead anywhere.But she was here. Wherever here was.The forest pressed in on both sides of the narrow road, trees so tall and thick they blocked out most of the afternoon sun. The air smelled different up here....cleaner, sharper, like rain and pine and something else she couldn't name. Something wild.She tightened her grip on the steering wheel, her ancient Honda groaning as it climbed another steep incline. The road was barely wide enough for one car, riddled with potholes and cracks that made her teeth rattle. No signs. No houses. No indication that anyone had driven this way in years.Her phone buzzed in the

The mate bond, which had been humming quietly in the background since he'd caught her scent, suddenly snapped into place with the force of a lightning strike. It roared through him, white-hot and all-consuming, burning away every thought that wasn't her her her MINE.Kieran's vision went white.His wolf threw back its head and howled, the sound ripping through the night like a prayer and a promise and a claim all at once.Somewhere in the distance, he heard answering howls...his brothers, sensing the bond, knowing what had just happened.But he couldn't focus on that.Because the girl had jerked her hand back, her eyes going wide as saucers, and she was scrambling backward in the hammock so fast she nearly fell out of it."What...." Her voice cracked. "What was that? Why did you...."She stopped.Stared at him.And Kieran realized, with a jolt of dark satisfaction, that she'd felt it too.The bond.She didn't understand it, how could she, when she was human? but she'd felt it. The pul

The words hung in the air like a death sentence.Elara's lungs forgot how to work."What?" she managed."The mate bond," Kieran said from behind Alaric. He sounded almost... apologetic? "When you touched me....when the bond snapped into place....it bound you to all three of us. You're our mate, Elara.""Your...." She shook her head frantically. "No. No, that's not....that doesn't make any sense!""It's rare," Caspian said, his voice slightly softer than his brothers'. "Three Alphas sharing one mate. But it happens. The bond doesn't lie.""I don't care about your bond!" Elara's voice was rising, hysteria creeping in at the edges. "I don't know you! I don't know any of this! I just came here to clean out my grandmother's cottage and...."She stopped.Stared at them."My grandmother," she said slowly. "She lived here. For months. Did she... did she know about you?"The three men exchanged glances."Yes," Alaric said finally."How?" Elara demanded. "How could she possibly....""Because sh

"I don't accept that.""You don't have to accept it for it to be true."Elara's hands clenched at her sides. For a moment, Alaric thought she might actually try to hit him. Part of him almost wished she would, at least then he'd have an excuse to touch her, to catch her wrists, to feel her skin against his.But she didn't.Instead, she lifted her chin and said, with as much dignity as she could muster, "Fine. You own the land. But you don't own me."Something in Alaric's chest twisted.She was right, of course. He didn't own her. The bond didn't work that way...it was a partnership, a claiming that went both ways. She was theirs, yes, but they were equally hers.But she didn't know that yet.And his wolf didn't care about the semantics.Tell her, Caspian urged. Tell her she owns us just as much.But Alaric couldn't.Because if he admitted that out loud....if he acknowledged the power she already held over them after less than an hour....he'd lose what little control he had left."We'r

"Don't call me that.""You said that last night too." He leaned closer, his forearms resting on the window frame. "And yet here we are.""Here we are," Elara agreed, her heart hammering. "And now I'm leaving. So if you could just...."A voice cut through the morning air, cold and commanding."What are you still standing there for? Get her out of the car, you dummy."Elara's blood turned to ice.She knew that voice. The eldest brother. Alaric.Which meant last night hadn't been a dream. Hadn't been a hallucination.It had been real.All of it.Oh god oh god oh god...."Well," Kieran said cheerfully, "you heard the man.""Don't you dare...." Elara started.But Kieran was already moving.He grabbed the door handle and yanked.The entire door ripped off its hinges with a screech of tortured metal, tumbling to the ground behind him like it weighed nothing.Elara screamed.Before she could even process what had just happened, Kieran's hands were on her, unbuckling her seatbelt, hauling her