Claimed By The Aurexian Alpha Triplets のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 8

Whatever had woken in my chest went quiet again almost immediately, like it had opened one eye, looked around, and decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.I told myself it was nerves. Humiliation did strange things to a person.Up front, Alpha Hale recovered his voice. “Alpha Aurexian. This is an unexpected honor.”“It shouldn’t be.” The one with the gray eyes didn’t raise his voice. He didn’t need to. “You knew we were coming.”Up close, in the lantern light, I could see them properly.They were brothers. That much was obvious. Same height, same wide shoulders, the same sharp line of jaw, like someone had carved them from the same block of stone and then gotten bored halfway through.The one who’d spoken stood in the middle. Dark suit, close-cut hair, so still he barely looked like he was breathing. His gray eyes moved over the clearing like he was taking inventory and finding everything lacking.To his left, the second brother looked like he’d been dragged here against his will and was

Dax didn’t speak for the first hour.He drove with one hand on the wheel and the other resting on the open window, the radio playing low, some old rock station fading in and out between the mountains. I watched the pine forest thicken and Nightreach disappear behind us, mile by mile, until I couldn’t have found my way home if I’d tried.Not that I had a home anymore.“You can sleep,” he said eventually. “It’s another two hours.”“I’m fine.”He glanced at me. Then back at the road. “You said you didn’t sleep last night. You must be tired.”I didn’t answer. He didn’t push.That was the whole conversation.The Aurexian estate came out of the trees all at once.I’d expected big. I hadn’t expected this. A sprawling house of dark stone and glass on the side of the mountain, three stories tall, lit gold against the gray morning. Stone walls ran off into the forest in both directions. Guards stood at the gate, and every one of them watched the truck roll through.Watched me.Nightreach’s pack

“Your eyes were silver.”Fenris said it so quietly I almost didn’t hear him.I stared at him. “What?”“Just now. Your eyes.” He took another step back, like he needed the distance. “They were silver.”“My eyes are blue.”“I know what color your eyes usually are! I am telling you they briefly turned silver.”The words hung there. He looked like he regretted them the second they were out.Then he closed the space between us again, fast, and caught my chin between his fingers. Not hard. But firm enough that I couldn’t look away. He tilted my face up into the lamplight and searched it, my eyes, my face, all of it, like he was reading something written in a language he didn’t speak.I held my breath.Whatever had risen inside me was gone. I couldn’t feel it anymore. There was just me, my heart pounding, and the cold Alpha with his hand on my face.“Nothing,” he muttered.He let go.“I don’t know what you think you saw,” I said, and hated that my voice shook. “But I don’t have a wolf. Every

The formal dining room was built to make people feel small.The table ran almost the length of the room, set with silver, crystal, and white roses. Candles burned in tall silver holders. Above it all, three chandeliers glittered like frozen stars.Nightreach sat on one side. The Aurexians sat on the other.And I stood behind Fenris’s chair, in my crisp blue skirt, holding a bottle of wine I’d fetched from the cellar three hours earlier.Across the table, Dax sat at Fenris’s right. Every time I glanced up, he wasn’t looking at me. Very carefully not looking at me, and somehow that felt worse.“Wine,” Fenris said quietly, without turning.I poured. Dark red, exactly to the line. Set the bottle back. Folded my hands.Across the table, my mother laughed at something Alpha Hale said. She hadn’t looked at me once since stepping out of the car. My father had, once, during the soup. It was the kind of look you gave a stain you couldn’t get out.“Your home is extraordinary, Alpha Fenris,” my m