Claimed By Four Alphas
“Hey!” I interject. “I am not! You’re just jealous that you haven’t had a turn yet!”
“I’m not jealous, believe me.” Theo continues to give me a disapproving look, but he’s not worked up.
I try to settle back down. “Well, excuse me for wanting to share my success with the people I thought were supposed to be my friends!”
“Maybe we don’t want to hear about you boning the girl we are all going to be with!” Gavin spits. He does, in fact, look perturbed. He folds his arms across his chest.
I can’t help but poke the bear. “Oh, don’t worry, Gavin,” I say. “I’m sure she hasn’t completely forgotten about you, now that she’s had me. Not yet anyway.”
I laugh, but Gavin takes it personally and flies up off the couch. “Stop being an asshole, Leo!”
I spring to my feet, ready for a fight. It’s been too damn long since I had the chance to punch someone in the face.
“Hey, knock it off!” Nico says as he and Theo both get between us. “We need to be calm about this. It’s not like any of us are happy about the situation, but it is what it is.”
“That’s right,” Theo continues. “We can’t beat each other up every time someone else sleeps with Liora, or we’ll all be bruised and battered. So calm down.”
I keep the grin on my face as Gavin takes a step back and yanks at his hair in frustration. “We shouldn’t be discussing what happens with Liora! This is supposed to be respectful… not a contest.”
“But it is a contest,” I remind him. “And I intend to win it.”
***
She never wanted to be a breeder.
When her parents trade her to the royal court for money, Liora ends up at the Alpha King’s castle, where a strange contest is already happening. The king has declared that whoever can give him the first heir will succeed him as king.
Liora becomes the prize at the centre of it all. Four Alphas, Gavin, Leo, Nico, and Theo, are chosen to compete, each more different than the last.
Liora wants to hate them. Hell, she even wants to escape, but the longer she stays, she starts to see them not as rivals or masters, but men who make her feel seen for the first time.
But love has no place in the King’s palace.
Everything takes an even worse turn when Serena, Liora’s cousin, steps forward to claim the Luna’s Crown, and with it, everything that keeps Liora safe.
But the throne was never truly what anyone truly was after. It was her.