All Chapters of Too Late to Claim Me, Uncle Alpha: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The text kept scrolling, line after crowded line.[He only pulled Vivian behind him because he was scared you'd go after her before your wounds had healed. And that cold look? He's mad at the guards for not looking after you and letting you come to the ceremony before you'd healed.][After you took those arrows for him and passed out, he sat in the medical tent for three days straight. You lost so much blood he nearly gave you all of his. How could Kane not love the little white wolf he raised himself?]I swallowed the ache in my chest and pretended I hadn't seen any of it.As if nothing had happened, I held my hand out to Kane and smiled, even though my eyes stung."Since you have your own Luna now, Uncle Kane, could I have my moonstone necklace back?"The floating text went wild.[That's the love token you gave him when you confessed your love at 18. Why take it back? Kane treasures that thing. He won't let anyone else so much as touch it!]But the next second, Vivian spoke up, her v

The stone floor at the Moon Goddess altar was bitterly cold.By the third hour of kneeling, my shoulder was bleeding again. The Beta who'd brought me wanted to go get a healer. Before I could tell him I was fine, I pitched forward and went down.Sometime in the night, I was burning up with fever.Half-conscious, I found myself 13 again.Kane stood in front of me with the wolves of Moonbridge at his back, like my savior.He held his hand out to me. "Don't be scared. Nobody will dare push you around again. As long as I'm alive, I'll always protect you."In the dream I reached for his hand, but all my fingers found was cold stone."Liar..."My teeth were chattering from the fever, but I still mumbled in a small, wounded voice, "Uncle Kane, you said you'd always protect me. You're not allowed to break your promise..."Someone wiped my tears away. The fingers lingered for a moment, then slowly pulled away.When I woke up again, two days had passed.My shoulder had been rebandaged, and someo

The car stopped in front of an estate on the edge of Moonbridge territory.My parents had bought it for me in secret before the war broke out.Back then, the whole North was on edge.Moonbridge was the strongest pack in the North. Kane's name was feared everywhere, and the vampires didn't dare set foot on his land.So without telling a soul, my parents set aside an estate for me here.On my 12th birthday, my mother gave me the deed. "Even if Mom and Dad aren't around someday, you'll always have a place to call home."Later, on the day Kane came for me, I thought it was fate. I thought my parents had somehow placed me in his hands.When I pushed the door open, the walls my father had painted were still there, and every piece of furniture my mother had picked out was right where she'd left it.I stood in the living room, and the ache hit me a moment later.I set the family photo Mae had saved on the nightstand, curled up on the couch, and fell into a deep sleep.For the next few days, I

Kane's POV:One hour earlier, in the Moonbridge council hall."I still don't believe Sandra would put wolfsbane in the Moon Spring."Owen sat across from him, frowning."Do you remember when she first came to Moonbridge at 13, and you sent her to the best training school? The other kids froze her out because she was a purebred white wolf with no parents."Kane leaned back in his chair, his hand going still on the armrest."What's your point?""They were jealous that Sandra was one of the North's rare purebred white wolves. And since her parents were gone, they called her 'the white wolf nobody wanted' behind her back and ganged up to shut her out."But Sandra never threw her parents' war record in anyone's face, and she never came running to you to tell on them. She trained every day until she couldn't stand, forced her wolf to awaken early, and at the end-of-year combat trials she put every last one of them on the ground. Nobody dared to bully her after that."Kane's expression tighte

By the time Kane made it back to Moonbridge, it was already dark.As he passed the Moon Goddess temple, he heard Mae inside, talking with his mother."Kane's been looking for Sandra everywhere. He even went out to the southern checkpoint. He's beside himself."Eleanor gave a cold snort. "Serves him right. When Sandra was chasing after him, he pushed her away. Now that she's really gone, suddenly he's scared."Mae laughed softly. "But when Sandra confessed her feelings to him at 18, weren't you the one who objected the most?""I objected because I was afraid she'd mistaken needing him for being in love with him." Eleanor sighed. "Kane's ten years older than her. What if they completed the marking and she only realized afterward that she'd gotten it wrong? Our kind mates for life. She'd never get a second chance with anyone else."The temple went quiet for a moment."But she took three arrows for Kane and nearly died on the hunting grounds. That's when I knew she really loved him."And w