All Chapters of Claimed by My Five Forbidden Mates: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

KNOXX VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW Fuck.The word slammed through my head the moment I remembered the downstairs room. I stopped in the middle of the room and stared ahead, but for a few seconds, I could not make sense of what was happening. Then the memory came back all at once. Caidy. The memory of how I shoved Caidy inside the room near the underground training room and how I locked her inside of it. My stomach dropped so hard that I almost felt sick. I had locked her in there before we left, and in the middle of all the chaos, I had forgotten to let her out. I had actually forgotten her."Oh, fuck." I dragged both hands through my hair and looked around as if the answer might somehow be sittin

KNOXX VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW The air in the room feels too thick to breathe. My chest feels hollow, like someone clawed it open, and panic grips me so hard that my whole body shakes. I try to take a breath, but even that feels impossible. My gaze drops to her hands, and my stomach twists when I see her fingernails. They are ragged and torn to the quick, and four of them are bleeding onto her skin. My eyes stay on them for a few seconds before I slowly turn my head toward the heavy storeroom door.Deep, jagged scratches cover the door.My stomach drops.She tried to claw her way out.The thought hits me so hard that I forget how to breathe. I stare at t

KNOXX VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW "I didn't mean to!"The words ripped out of me before I could stop them. I threw my hands up, and my voice came out louder than I intended. I could hear the panic in it, and I hated how desperate I sounded, but I couldn't control it anymore. My chest was already tight, and the more I looked at their faces, the more I felt like I was being backed into a corner with nowhere left to go."You know me!" I said, my voice shaking as I looked from Malakai to the others. "You know I would never do something like that. I would never deliberately starve her or leave her there knowing she was going to get hurt. You fucking know me!""Well, you just did."Lucien's voice came from the sofa. He loo

KNOXX VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW The air in the hallway felt too heavy to breathe. Every breath caught in my chest, and my ribs rose and fell too fast as I tried to get myself under control. My hands would not stop shaking. I clenched them into fists, but that only made the tremors worse. I hated that they could all see me like this. I hated that they knew exactly why I was falling apart.“Go to your room and rest, Knoxx,” Malakai said. His voice was firm and final, the kind that made it clear he would not tolerate an argument. “I’ll call you when Caidy wakes up.”“Call him? Why the fuck would you call him?” Sylas snapped. He stepped forward, his anger sharp enough to cut through the silence. “So he can hurt Caidy again?”

KNOXX VOLKARIS POINT OF VIEW My knees are pulled tight against my chest, and my forehead presses against my arms until the bone aches. I sit on the cold wooden floor outside her door with my back against the wall. The door stays open by a crack, just enough for me to hear her if she stirs or makes even the smallest sound.I keep telling myself that I only need to listen, that I only need to make sure she is breathing and that nothing else happens to her, but the truth is much uglier. I am terrified to look at her because I already know what I will see, and I am even more terrified that she will wake up and look at me. Sylas and the others finally went to their rooms because I swore on everything holy, on my own beating heart, that I would call them the second she woke up in pain.