Claimed by the Alpha I Hate – Episode 53
Daisy agreed to hear the ritual terms, buying time while Nolan searched the throne room through their bond. Guards filled every exit, but the old tunnel remained open behind distant walls.
Klaudius ordered Nolan disarmed. Silver restraints locked around the Alpha’s wrists.
“If you hurt him, there is no bargain,” Daisy said. Her power flickered beneath Vera’s pendant.
Klaudius noticed. “Your mother left you that crude little leash.”
He claimed the pendant suppressed Daisy’s true strength. Removing it during the ritual would allow vampire blood to dominate permanently.
Daisy asked what would happen to her wolf side. Klaudius dismissed it as weakness to be burned away.
Nolan felt her recoil. Daisy had spent her life longing for a wolf; she would not allow Klaudius to erase that heritage now.
Scott approached while the vampire lord gave orders. He told Daisy quietly that helping him regain Eastwind could spare them both.
“You still think this ends with you as Alpha,” Daisy said. “Klaudius doesn’t even think you’re useful enough to chain.”
The insult landed because it was true. Scott possessed freedom only because he posed no threat.
Lucien entered and announced that preparations were ready. His gaze paused on Daisy’s pendant with concealed calculation.
Through a faint vampire connection, he sent her a sensation rather than words: wait.
Daisy did not trust him, but the signal revealed division inside Klaudius’s court.
Klaudius ordered her grandfather moved to the ritual chamber. Nolan struggled against the silver, burning his skin.
Daisy touched his bound hand. The mate bond carried her plan: remain alive, follow when the guards moved, trust her.
Nolan hated every part of it, yet he forced himself still. Commanding her now would destroy the partnership they had built.
Mila watched their silent exchange with jealousy. She told Klaudius the bond would interfere with the ritual.
He agreed. Nolan would be taken below the castle, beyond the range of Daisy’s mind.
As guards dragged him away, the bond stretched painfully but did not break. Daisy kept her face calm.
When the throne room emptied, Lucien whispered that Klaudius’s ritual would not crown Daisy. It would drain her power into him.