Claimed by My Alpha Stepbrother

Episode 1

Ophelia has a week to shift or she's out of the pack — and her wolf won't come. To make it worse, her mother has mated Alpha Thomas, dragging her into a new household ruled by Jackson, the golden-boy stepbrother who has bullied her from day one. Home alone during the pack's full-moon run, Ophelia tries everything, even the moonstone, and gets nothing. Then her door slams open. Jackson stands there shirtless, locks it behind him, and catches the scent she's been trying to hide. Half-naked and frozen, she realizes he knows exactly what's happening — and he isn't leaving.

Episode 2

Ophelia forces out a warning: she doesn't need Jackson's help. He only grins and tells her she smells like something to him, then yanks away her blanket. When she demands he leave, he reminds her who he is — the Alpha's son — and who she is: the wolfless girl a week from getting tossed out. He senses the moonstone under her bed and kneels between her knees to reach it. His damp hair brushes her thigh, his forearm presses there, and her body betrays her. He holds up the stone but won't let go, his glowing eyes lifting to hers as he murmurs that she's not the only one struggling.

Episode 3

Ophelia pushes back — he's the Alpha's son, he doesn't struggle. Jackson drags the moonstone slowly down her throat, toward her heat, and she digs her fingers into the sheets, torn between pulling him closer and shoving him away. She reminds herself she hates him; his family is why her mother tore her from her old pack. She stands too fast, trips over his leg, and lands straddling him. His hands clamp on her hips: don't move. Beneath her palms his muscles tense, fur pushing through his skin — he's fighting to keep control because of her, and she hates how much she likes it.

Episode 4

She could break free — she's escaped Jackson's grip plenty of times over the remote or the last slice of pizza. But when he sits up beneath her, chest to chest, she doesn't want to. His rough hands slide down her back and settle at her waist, holding her like he's afraid she'll bolt. She tries to leave; he pulls her back onto his lap and fists a hand in her hair, tilting her throat up to breathe her in. A moan slips out. "You feel it, too," he says — her wolf may be hiding, but she knows what his wants. Then: be a good girl and don't move.

Episode 5

Every knead of Jackson's fingers sends electricity under her skin, and her sounds edge toward howls. Her fingertips burn — claws beginning to emerge. Maybe he really can bring her wolf out. Then the front door opens downstairs: her mother and the Alpha are home. Jackson's hand slides from her waist, over her stomach, and lower, settling between her thighs through thin fabric, grinding his palm against her. She bites her lip and clutches his arm, knowing she should stop him and not wanting to. Footsteps climb the stairs. The knob turns, then stops — and her mother asks why it smells like she's in heat.

Episode 6

The door rattles. "Open this door now." What follows turns into a standoff between Ophelia and Jackson — his smug needling, her refusal to squirm for him. He needles her about never having been on a date, and she throws it right back, flipping the game on him: is this what he wanted to see, big brother? His answer is a threat wrapped in a smirk — learn the rules around here, or that "cute toy" of hers goes a whole lot deeper next time. She calls him exactly what he is. Under the bravado, though, something else stirs: the wolf in him wants her.

Episode 7

Later, Ophelia's mother comes to her room with a bottle from the pharmacist — pills that suppress pheromones during heat. Take them before the next full moon, she instructs; she doesn't want Ophelia causing trouble in this house, not until she's secured her place. Ophelia plays it cool, claiming she's fine, already in bed. But her mother lingers, suspicious: Ophelia is sweating, something's off with her. Ophelia deflects — just a mosquito, nothing wrong, I promise. The pressure is closing in from every side, and the pills in her hand feel less like protection than a leash.

Episode 8

The household keeps tightening its grip. Ophelia's mother tells her that if she ever has problems at school, she should tell Felix — and he's waiting outside for her. At the gate, Felix is smoking with his father's pack cigarettes, and he doesn't bother hiding it: as long as Ophelia keeps quiet about him and his teacher, nobody knows he has them. Mutual leverage, again. Then Chad's party invitation lands, and Felix's needling turns sharp and strangely possessive. The episode ends on a new face and a challenge — a stranger's hostile "do we know each other?" as Ophelia steps into Silvermoon's social minefield.

Episode 9

First day at Silvermoon, and Ophelia walks straight into a wall of contempt. A hostile classmate demands to know her pedigree — which pack, which father — and when it comes out that her father had no pack, the mockery turns vicious: how did a rogue's daughter get into a werewolf prep school? Ophelia fires back that her father is dead and demands respect. It only makes it worse. The girl sneers that Ophelia is wolfless, completely powerless, and still talking — really asking for it. Tension spikes as the group closes in. Then a voice cuts through: "Don't touch her."

Episode 10

Felix steps in, and the room turns on him — why protect her? The warning is clear: his father won't want another suspension. Ophelia is mortified at being defended in front of everyone. Chad smooths things over, introducing himself and explaining that Lena is an heiress raised spoiled, attitudes baked in. Then Chad invites Ophelia to tonight's party, and Felix adds his own pointed advice: at Silvermoon, learn to play nice, or make everything harder for yourself. The invitation becomes a date. But a warning follows her — a skirt that short, a guy like Chad, a trap waiting. And then a quieter offer: why not go out with me instead?