All Chapters of Claimed by the Triplet Alphas: Breeder for the Lycan King: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

KiaShe found Ryder at the eastern edge of the valley settlement two days after their return, exactly where he had been keeping his careful distance for weeks now, and this time she walked the full length of the field herself rather than waiting for him to approach.He straightened when he saw her coming, surprise and something more cautious moving across his face in equal measure."You don't have to come all the way out here," he said when she reached him."I know," she said. "I wanted to."She told him about the chamber, about the ruling, about Anastasia stripped and remanded, about the breeder decree erased from every record it had ever touched. He listened without interrupting, his expression carrying the specific weight of someone hearing his own family's reckoning described from the outside."She's in Council custody now," Kia finished. "Sentencing comes next. I don't know what that looks like yet.""I do," Ryder said quietly. "I read the old statutes Pellis invoked, before we l

DeclanHe arrived exactly at the agreed hour, on foot, unarmed as promised, his hands visible and empty the entire approach across the open ground toward the waystation.Liam watched him from the doorway, Kratavak a step behind, both of them reading his posture with the practiced attention of men who had learned, the hard way, not to take anyone's word for granted."I'm alone," Declan said, stopping ten feet out. "You can check. I assume you already have.""We have," Kratavak said.Declan nodded, unsurprised. He looked between them, something almost rueful in his expression. "The brothers who tracked hunters off a northern road and rode three days to a meeting that might be a trap anyway. I read the reports. You've both changed considerably since the files I built on you years ago.""People do that," Liam said. "Given a reason."Xander arrived an hour later, alone as well, having left Kia and the children with Bren's primary security detail at the agreed distance. He walked into the w

KratavakThree days later, at Declan's suggestion, they attempted something he called a stability test, a deliberate gathering of the full bound circle, all seven of them in the same room with the twins, to observe whether the proximity itself produced any noticeable shift."I'm not promising results," Declan said, as they arranged themselves around the main room. "The text doesn't describe a way to safely simulate the threshold. This is simply an observation."Kia sat at the center with both children, Xander beside her, Liam and Kratavak and Ryder positioned at careful, roughly equal distances, Sable with her notebook ready, Bren near the door as always.For several minutes, nothing happened beyond the ordinary.Then Soren's eyes brightened, the gold catching light that wasn't quite explained by the lamp nearby."There," Sable said quietly, writing fast.Liora's blue eyes did the same, a fraction of a second later, the two lights rising together in perfect synchrony.The room's tempe

RyderHe spent the fourth day reinforcing the waystation's outer perimeter with Kratavak, the physical labor a welcome distraction from the specific anxious waiting that filled every other hour."You've been different since the stability test," Kratavak observed, hauling a fallen beam into position against the southern wall."I felt they chose me," Ryder said. "Not forgive me. Choose me, for now, for this specific purpose." He set his end of the beam down. "It's different from earning her trust gradually. It happened all at once, and I don't fully understand what to do with that.""Maybe you don't have to understand it," Kratavak said. "Maybe you just have to keep being worth the choice, the same way the rest of us are trying to."Ryder considered this as they worked."I used to think strength was the only thing that mattered," he said finally. "Then I thought it was controlled." He paused, searching for the words. "Now I think it's just showing up, accurately, without pretending to b

RyderHe spent the fourth day reinforcing the waystation's outer perimeter alongside Kratavak, the steady physical labor offering a welcome distraction from the specific, gnawing anxious waiting that filled nearly every other hour of the day now."You've been different since the stability test," Kratavak observed, hauling a fallen support beam into position against the southern wall with the easy strength that had always characterized him."I felt them choose me," Ryder said, bracing his end of the beam. "Not forgive me, exactly. Choose me, for now, for this specific and particular purpose." He set his end down carefully once it was secured. "It's different from earning her trust gradually, the way I've been trying to do for weeks now. This happened all at once, in a single moment, and I'm not certain I fully understand yet what to do with that kind of grace.""Maybe you don't actually have to understand it completely," Kratavak said, wiping sweat from his brow despite the cold. "Mayb