Alle Kapitel von Claimed by his bully brother in law: Kapitel 11 – Kapitel 20

Larry’s povRowan didn’t pull into the driveway casually like nothing had happened.He entered very slowly, too slowly.Like he was giving me time. Or maybe giving himself time.Before the engine cut, he glanced at me.“Remember,” he said quietly. “You don’t tell Sasha what happened.”My stomach knotted. “I know.”“You just say we bumped into each other on the way back.”I looked down at my hands.“I hate lying to her.”“I know,” he said. “But this is for her own good.”That didn’t make any sense or make me feel better but I swallowed hard and nodded.“I’ll do it.”Rowan studied my face like he was searching for cracks. Then, unexpectedly, he reached over and took my hand.I flinched at first but his thumb rubbed slow, grounding circles against my skin.“Everything will be fine,” he said. “We’ll talk properly later. I promise.”My chest felt tight but I nodded.“Okay.”He squeezed my hand once before letting go.I sat up straighter, forcing my face into something neutral, normal and c

Larry’s POVI woke up with the worst kind of hangover, not the alcohol kind but the kind that sat deep in my chest like guilt that refused to loosen its grip no matter how much I tried to breathe it off.And the first thing that came back to my memoy was my own hand under the blanket, with Rowan’s face burned into my mind in a way that made my stomach twist instantly.I could hear his voice replaying in my head like it had been etched there, and I remembered the humiliating awareness of how easily my body had betrayed me without permission.so I groaned and rolled onto my stomach, burying my face into the pillow as I muttered, “I’m disgusting,” because my sister was married to him and I had still gotten off thinking about him, which should have been enough to permanently ruin my entire existence.But after lying there for a moment I forced myself to breathe and made a decision right there, “No. Enough. I’m avoiding Rowan. Completely.” no long conversations, no being alone anywhere, no

Larry’s POVI shook my head again, slower this time. “You actually expect me to believe werewolves are real?”“Yes,” Rowan answered without hesitation.I let out another small, disbelieving snort. “Let me guess. You’re a werewolf.”“Yes.”I just stared at him, not laughing, not snapping back, not rolling my eyes like I normally would, but simply staring because something about Rowan’s expression didn’t feel like a game anymore.He didn’t look smug or amused or like he was trying to push my buttons just for the hell of it. He looked certain, completely and unshakably certain, and that steadiness in him made something uneasy coil deep in my chest.My fingers tightened around the mug as I forced myself to hold his gaze, my voice coming out quieter than I intended when I finally spoke. “You have one last chance,” I said slowly, carefully, like I was trying to anchor myself to logic, to anything normal. “Stop fucking messing with me Rowan.”Rowan stepped closer almost immediately, and the

Larry’s POVMy mouth opened and then closed again, and when I tried to speak a second time nothing came out at all, because the word Alpha kept bouncing around inside my skull like a weird ass Aalien that didn’t belong there.I mean, it was something I couldn’t quite compute no matter how hard I tried, and it made absolutely no fucking sense at all because Alpha meant wolf pack leader.And if i let myself believe that Rowan was truly a wolf pack leader, then that meant one of the things I had just spent my entire life believing did not exist, was actually rea, and sitting next to meAnd that in turn meant—if I followed that thought to its logical conclusion—that I was either losing my fucking mind or standing inside a situation that had nothing to do with the normal world I thought I lived in.I looked between Rowan and the man standing a few feet away like my brain might eventually catch up if I stared hard enough, and my voice came out hoarse and brittle when I finally forced it. “O

Larry POVAfter seeing Rowan get stabbed, everything had dissolved into smoke.Thick, choking, blinding smoke swallowed the room whole, burning my eyes until tears streamed down my face and tearing through my lungs every time I tried to drag in air.Beside me, Sasha coughed violently while trying to fight off the person holding her, one hand locked around my arm so tightly it hurt.“Larry!” she cried desperately. “What’s happening?!”I didn’t know.God, I didn’t know. All I knew was that the man who had grabbed me had been yanked off and I couldnt see anything again.Dark figures moved through the haze like shadows pulled from nightmares, their forms barely visible between bursts of smoke and chaos. Boots pounded across the floor, metal clanged somewhere nearby, voices shouted over one another, and suddenly someone grabbed me and yanked me backward so violently my shoulder screamed with pain.I let out a terrified scream.“No—!”Before the man could drag me farther, something blurred