All Chapters of Alpha's Claimed Enemy: Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

Chapter 1 Selene’s POV“Run, Selene!” My voice echoed loudly in my head, a reminder to take charge of my body as I sprinted through the woods with the strength in me.I could feel death tugging at my skin with every step. Dying in these woods contradicted what my mother’s stories promised… “an old wolf in her bed, surrounded by all the people she loved,” No. I was going to die torn apart, smeared across wet barks and pine needles.“Moon Goddess, please save me,” I whimpered as my bare feet continuously slapped against the wet earth. The cold torturous air adding to my pain, ripping my lungs apart and dashing my hopes.Behind me, the howls and steps of the humongous wolves were closing in. Their eyes spelled no thought as they crashed through the bushes like they owned every root and rock on this godforsaken forest. In the blink of an eye, a claw caught me by my shoulder and spun me sideways. I hit a tree trunk hard enough to shatter my bones. Blood ran down my arm into the soil like

Chapter 3:Kael's POVRuin had been howling for three days before she crossed my border.I had not slept. I did not sleep much anyway, but this was different, a pressure behind my eyes and a drumbeat in my chest that matched nothing I had ever felt. I stood on the border ridge at dawn on the third day and told my wolf to be quiet. He answered with a sound I had not heard from him since I was a boy. Not rage. Want.And then she came out of the trees, running barefoot through the dark, silver white hair plastered to her skull, and the whole world narrowed to a single, terrible word.I had put my hand on her throat because it was the only leash I had left. If I had not held her, I would have claimed her right there on the border dirt in front of thirty warriors, and I would have become my father. I told myself that all night while her blood dried on my palm."Tell me you have lost your mind."Marcus did not knock. He never did when he was angry. He came through the door of my study and p

Chapter Five: Kael's POVI stood outside her door with my claws still out and Ruin howling in my skull.“Mine.” He said, bit exactly in words but in the thud of my heart and the heat in my hands and memory of her pulse pounded my thumb. “Go, make it right with her.” His voice finally echoed through my mind. But it was not convincing enough, at least not for a man of war like myself. I pressed my forehead against the cold oak. Through the wood, I could hear her breathing. Slow, Uneven and full of fear. She wasn't crying, but I could sense how terrified she was. I had just told her she was going to be the architect of her father's demise. I had at least expected to bawl her eyes out, but even though she was a fair and gentle damsel, there was some grit about her. Maybe that's why she was my mate. "Alpha?"The guard at the foot of the tower stairs had risen from his stool. A young man, barely twenty, with eyes that went everywhere except my face."No one enters this door," I s

Chapter Seven: Selene's POVThe mist came up off the river in sheets, so thick I could taste it. “Help me, Goodness.” I muttered, my head bowed and my breath low. They walked me to the border before dawn, Kael in front, Marcus a pace behind, and two silent warriors at my back. Nobody spoke. My boots slid on the wet leaves. I had a script in my head, five lines, and I recited them until I could say them in my sleep. Forty on the east wall. Rotation at midnight. The forge crew is thin from the winter sickness. The north gate barred from inside after dark. The Alpha seldom leaves his study.Only I and Kael knew about this, and as for the others, it meant nothing because they all wanted me dead. Everything was a life… all I was going to say and the bond we were going to feign. Kael has written them himself, in a fast, slanting hand, and watched me say each one aloud until my left hand stopped moving.At the edge of the trees, a hundred paces from the old dead oak, the column halted