All Chapters of THE BANISHED ALPHA, CLAIMED ME: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

Sylvia Fenris' POV************************************************I didn't tell my friends about the note. I burned it in the candle flame instead, watching the paper curl black at the edges and crumble to ash on my windowsill, and told myself it was a cruel prank. Some jealous classmate with too much time and too little conscience, nothing more. It was easier to believe that than to sit with the alternative, that someone with real resources and real intent wanted me gone from this school, and maybe from this world entirely. I went about my days like nothing had changed, forcing smiles at breakfast, forcing my hands steady during training, pretending the note was just paper and ash and nothing more.I almost believed that too, until three nights later.I was walking back from the training barn after a late session with Coach Aldric later than usual, the sky already dark and starless, clouds pressing low over the academy grounds like a held breath.I felt it before I hear

Thoros Myr’s POV ************************************************I had not planned on falling for her. I had not planned on any of this.Six years of preparation, six years of quiet alliances and careful lies, all building toward one single purpose, bringing the Crescent Moon Clan to its knees for what it did to my family. And then a red-haired girl with wide green eyes had walked into my life, terrified and heartbroken and utterly unaware of the war brewing beneath the surface of everything she had ever been taught to believe, and every careful plan I had built started cracking at the foundation, one unguarded moment at a time.The border horn was still ringing when I reached the war room, my second-in-command Garrick already waiting with a map spread across the table, torchlight flickering across markers and terrain lines that represented six years of careful, patient work."Small unit," Garrick reported, jaw tight, tapping a finger against the eastern ridge. "Six wolves,