All Chapters of Claimed by My Five Forbidden Mates: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

MALAKAI VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW She was fucking laughing.The second I saw her, something in my chest tightened. There she stood in the middle of the training ground, our enemy, the woman who had been nothing but trouble since she stepped into our territory, and she was laughing like none of this mattered. Her hands were wrapped around our mother's twin blades, and somehow, instead of struggling to hold them, Caidy looked like she belonged there.My mother's blades.Those swords had been part of our family long before any of us were born. We had grown up hearing stories about what our mother had done with them, how she had carried them into battles and returned with blood on the steel.Sylas, Knoxx, Evren, Lucien

CAIDY ELLIS POINT OF VIEW The room was quiet except for the sound of our blades.My arms were already burning, and every breath scraped against my throat, but I refused to let Lucien see how tired I was. He had been relentless from the moment we started. Every strike from his broadsword rattled my wrists and sent pain shooting up my arms. He had trained his whole life to fight. I had only held these twin swords for the first time today.Another strike came.Our blades collided, and the force nearly knocked me off balance. I stumbled back, caught myself, and raised my left sword just in time to block his next attack. My palms stung, but I tightened my grip.“Give up, Poison,” Lucien said through heavy

KNOXX VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW The color drained from Caidy’s face so fast that, for half a second, I almost laughed. Almost. She looked like someone had just caught her with a knife in her hand, and the guilt hit her so hard that I could almost see it settle over her.Then I saw her eyes.They locked onto mine, wide and terrified, and something in my chest tightened. She knew. I watched the realization spread across her face as she remembered exactly what she had said and, worse, who she had said it to. She had done it again. Maybe she hadn’t meant to this time, but that didn’t make the words hurt any less."I—I didn't mean it," she said quickly. Her voice shook as she tried to explain herself. "I'm sorry, Knoxx. I really didn't mean

CAIDY ELLIS POINT OF VIEW I tossed and turned for what felt like the hundredth time, but sleep refused to come. Every time I closed my eyes, the memory of what I had said earlier came back. I could still hear my own voice, still remember the look on their faces, and the more I thought about it, the tighter my chest felt. Guilt sat heavily inside me, twisting my stomach until I wanted to crawl out of my own skin.I had done it again.Fuck, I knew better. I knew what it felt like when someone took something private, something painful, and dragged it into the light without permission. I had spent years protecting my own secrets because I knew exactly how much it hurt to have them used against me. Yet somehow, I had done the same thing to them. Maybe I ha

SYLAS VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW The air in my room felt heavier by the second. Then the sharp knock against my door broke through the silence, and Caidy froze beside me. All the color drained from her face as she stared at the door before looking back at me, her eyes wide with panic. I could almost see the thoughts racing through her head, each one worse than the last, and something in my chest tightened at the sight of her so afraid.“He’s going to think the worst of me,” she whispered, her voice already shaking. She glanced around the room, then looked at me again with pure desperation. “Sylas, we’re in your room. In the middle of the night. And you’re not even wearing a shirt. Please, put something on. Anything.”She placed both hands against my bare chest and