Claimed by the Alpha I Hate – Episode 54
Lucien led Daisy toward the ritual chamber while guards surrounded them. His warning repeated in her mind: Klaudius intended to take everything.
“Why tell me?” she asked quietly.
“Because a ruler who needs stolen power is already finished.” Lucien’s answer revealed ambition, not mercy.
He wanted Klaudius weakened, but he also wanted Daisy alive for purposes of his own. She treated his information as a weapon, not an alliance.
Below the castle, Nolan tested the silver chains. Each movement burned deeper, but one link had cracked when Daisy touched him.
Their bond remained faint, pulsing through stone. He followed it instead of wasting strength against every restraint.
Elias and the infiltration team entered the lower passage. They found Nolan’s cell by following marks he scratched into the floor.
Above them, Daisy entered a circular chamber carved with ancient symbols. Her grandfather was chained beside the altar.
Klaudius placed a crystal vessel at the center. It was designed to collect power, not transfer it into Daisy.
Lucien’s warning was confirmed. Daisy pretended not to understand.
Klaudius ordered her to remove Vera’s pendant. Daisy asked one final question before obeying.
“Did you kill my mother?”
He called Vera’s death unfortunate but necessary. She had refused to reveal Daisy’s location even under threat.
The confession stripped away the last abstraction. Klaudius had ordered the attack that took Nolan’s parents and the one that killed Vera.
Daisy removed the pendant. Power surged through the room so violently that candles extinguished.
Klaudius mistook her anger for surrender. He began the ritual, drawing red light toward the crystal.
Daisy allowed the current to flow while studying the symbols. Vera’s journal had taught her that mixed power sought balance.
Instead of resisting, she divided the energy—vampire force into the vessel, wolf bond downward through the castle.
The pulse reached Nolan. His cracked chain shattered beneath the answering strength of his wolf.
As alarms sounded below, Daisy looked at Klaudius and smiled. “My mother died protecting me from you. I’m not giving you what she saved.”