All Chapters of “Marked as Property, Stolen by the Alpha”: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

“The council escort has arrived.”The sound of engines thundered outside the ruined bar like war itself had come to collect me.Nobody moved.Nobody breathed.Then Silas released Darius with enough force to crack the wall behind him.“If they touch her,” he said coldly, “I start killing people.”Darius straightened his jacket calmly.“And that is why the council already doubts you.”Silas took one step forward again.Kael blocked him this time.“Don’t.”Silas looked ready to break his spine.Kael lowered his voice.“If you lose control now, they win.”That stopped him.Barely.I looked between all of them, my chest burning with anger and confusion.“You still haven’t explained what Kael meant.”Nobody answered quickly enough.I laughed bitterly.“Interesting pattern.”Silas’s gaze found mine instantly.“Mira—”“No.”I stepped back from all of them.“You don’t get to hide things anymore.”Kael dragged a hand through his hair roughly.“The bond was supposed to be mine.”The room went si

“Unless the mating bond was partially triggered before first contact.”Silence crashed through the room so violently it felt physical.I stared at Seraphine.“What does that mean?”No one answered.Again.My anger snapped hard enough to cut through the fear.“Speak.”Seraphine studied me carefully.Then Silas.Then Kael.And suddenly I realized something horrifying.They were all afraid of the answer.Kael recovered first.“That’s impossible.”Seraphine’s gaze stayed cold.“Rare. Not impossible.”Silas stepped closer to her slowly.Dangerously.“Explain.”The single word sounded like a threat.Seraphine folded her hands behind her back.“In some bloodlines, early exposure can create dormant imprinting before physical recognition occurs.”I frowned.“That sounded like nonsense.”Darius answered quietly.“It means your bond may have started years ago.”My stomach dropped.“No.”Silas looked shaken now.Actually shaken.“When would she have met me?”Seraphine’s eyes narrowed slightly.“T

“That’s not an omega wolf.”The darkness swallowed the room whole.Nobody moved.Nobody breathed.Then another growl ripped from my throat.Deeper this time.Stronger.The sound shocked me so badly I stumbled backward.“What the hell—”A hand caught my waist instantly.Silas.Even in total darkness, I knew his touch immediately.“Mira.”His voice was low.Careful.Too careful.Like I might explode.Fear clawed through my chest.“That wasn’t me.”But it was.I knew it was.I felt it vibrating inside my ribs.Alive.Awake.The emergency lights flickered on suddenly in dim red flashes.And every single person in the room was staring at me.Terrified.Council guards had their weapons raised.Jaxon looked stunned.Mara slowly whispered, “Holy shit.”Kael’s face had gone pale.But Silas—Silas looked at me like I was the most dangerous thing in the world.And somehow still the only thing he wanted.Seraphine stepped forward slowly.“What color?”I blinked.“What?”“When your eyes change,” s

“She’s claiming him.”The room stopped breathing.I stared at Darius.Then laughed.Because that sentence was insane.“I’m sorry,” I said slowly, “did you hit your head when Silas threw you into the wall?”Nobody smiled.Nobody even blinked.That terrified me instantly.I looked at Silas.His face had gone completely still.Not confused.Not shocked.Like something horrible had just been confirmed.My stomach twisted.“No.”Seraphine spoke quietly.“That would explain the instability.”I backed away from all of them.“No.”Kael looked wrecked.Darius looked fascinated.Silas looked furious.Not at me.At the situation.Which somehow made it worse.I pointed between them wildly.“You are all acting like this makes sense.”Seraphine folded her arms.“It doesn’t.”“Great. Wonderful. Glad we’re all confused together.”Silas stepped toward me slowly.“Mira.”“Don’t ‘Mira’ me right now.”His jaw tightened.“You’re panicking.”“You think?”The pressure inside my chest surged again.Every bot

“She smells claimed already.”The room went deadly still.Silas stepped fully in front of me.A wall.A warning.Mine.The dangerous thought flashed through my head before I could stop it.The Prince noticed.His silver eyes sharpened instantly.“Well,” he said softly, “that is inconvenient.”Silas’s voice came out like a blade dragged over bone.“Leave.”The Prince smiled wider.“I don’t take orders from rogue Alphas.”“And I don’t care.”Tension slammed through the ruined bar so hard even the walls seemed to shake with it.I peeked around Silas slightly.The Prince was terrifying.Not because he looked cruel.Because he looked calm.Too calm.Like violence bored him.Silver hair brushed his forehead carelessly, expensive black gloves covered his hands, and power rolled off him so heavily my wolf reacted instantly beneath my skin.Pressure built painfully in my chest.He felt it.His eyes snapped directly to me.“There you are.”The words were soft.Possessive.Wrong.Silas growled l