The Alpha King's Claim
Chapter 1
The Alpha King’s Claim chapter 1 by desirenovel
Serena
Paintings.
I always love them. Whenever there was an art show near Manhattan, I make it a point to go check the artworks and possibly buy one. Or two. Or three of them.
What I look for in a painting were the strokes the painter uses, the use of colors and how they blend in with the picture in general, and of course, the drawing.
I had always been a sucker for fantasy-inspired paintings. Fantastical landscapes, mythical creatures, men and women wearing weird clothing, oh yes, I collected them all. They had always reached out to a part of my soul that I had been guarding since I lost my parents. They had always called out to a part of me that I wasn’t sure what.
Maybe, my parents as painters could be the reason. They influenced my tastes after all. But deep inside me, I knew there was always something special about these types of paintings I couldn’t quite figure out.
Manhattan about to be closed by the bank for bankruptcy. The different antique displays were spread all over
slopes covered in autumn trees. In the center of this mountain range, just nestled on top of the hill
was gracious enough to give me a discount considering the painting had smudges on the edges due to its aged state. I was kind enough to refuse it. If
she said with a smile as we
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was with me, I dreamed about magical creatures: behemoths in the sky, beautiful mermaids swimming in the ocean,
on the hill. It was beckoning me, wanting me to go there. I woke up in the middle of
night, my dream brought me inside the castle. It was enormous with arched roofs and glass walls. In a blink of an eye, I was sent to a bed chamber. The sheets were covered with an embroidered insignia: a profile of what looked like an animal—a wolf—and around it were curves, lines, and symbols I had never come
the one lying on it. It was a man and from what I could gather, the king of the castle as he had a crown on top his head screaming almighty
course, that wasn’t the only thing that