Claimed By The Mad Alpha Who Hates Me

e

is Ag

tion-Alpha Caius simply

crashing over me like a tidal wave, carrying anger and the mur

s so justif

remony hadn't fully dispersed yet. They clustered in corners lik

pposed to be a

The moment that sacred mark was placed, Caius would officially complete his succ

standing, in this carefully arranged sacred space, waiting for this evenin

e's expectations,

carefully constructed stage, along with everyone's expectation

he day, naturally became the target of everyone's

ounding smaller than I'd expected,

nsignia pressed against his broad chest like a crown, once symb

nched teeth. "Agatha has been with you almost every day for a month. You've witnessed her every expressio

I could feel the heat

head, desperately wanting to retre

l the Alpha

against my nerves, carrying that familiar tone of reproach I'd

ted to take responsibility,

partly because they weren't bothering to lower their

e's lying." A

istress-she's probably used to this sort of thing

d enough for everyone to hear clearly. "Who knows if she's already... met with some acci

could ignore-I was us

Agatha, my half-sister,

s was an open secret

ed the same blood, hated that every day I

nd reasons for it. My simply being here, breathing t

ying something almost like pleading, saying: "Seren, I w

ailors to try on dresses, brought me to the moonlight gardens to see the flowers that would be used

own accord, speaking to me in that tone of si

up, maybe she was just nervous about the approaching wedding and needed compan

t yet ice-cold hall, pinned in place by everyone's

e than a carefull

g. She knew someone would come asking questions

ate embraces and shared secrets to make me the mos

, foolishly, that it was th

want to hea

ike thunder, instantly silenci

ely retreated half a step, but my back hit the column behind me, th

ell me where sh

rembling, but the words still spilled brokenly fro

and m

before his long, powerful f

ating the possibility he could choose to tighten his grip at any moment. I c

k, or

me like a tide, my h

I realized how cl

ai

intervened,

Aldric, Caius's fath

us, not looking at me, speaking so

e watching. Min

his subject, just didn't want hi

t. He turned around slowly, his back to me, h

er cells. I'll interroga

es

o action, their boots striking the marble floor

rabbing my arms, their fingers clamping dow

ungeon! Once there, I'd never se

ng to wrench my arms from their gri

You can't arrest me! Yo

oudly I screamed, n

watching my clownish struggles with m

hing strange exp

n soul, from that primal corner never before touched, clear a

IN

ce, struck as

rom something that had been sleeping deep in my bones, something I'd never

w

everyone had told me so. Impure bloodline, unable to s

ality, accepted my fate of n

ch impact like something that had slept for eight

I

that voic

that strange instinct, letting my ga

o

oss

d so long for-how