Claimed by the Alpha I Hate – Episode 65
Nolan saw Scott before Daisy did. He moved between them, but the poisoned blade was already descending.
Daisy turned and caught Scott’s wrist. Her new control stopped the silver inches from Nolan’s heart.
“You chose him again,” Scott snarled.
“I never chose you,” Daisy said. “Fate did, and you threw it away.”
Scott fought with desperation rather than skill. He blamed Daisy for his lost title, Mila’s betrayal, and every consequence of his own cowardice.
Nolan could have killed him immediately. Daisy asked him to wait.
She wanted Scott to understand that the woman defeating him was the same person he rejected as worthless.
Daisy twisted the knife from his hand and broke it against the floor.
Scott reached for her throat. The remnants of their old bond offered no power, only a memory of pain.
She struck him with a controlled wave that carried him across the throne room.
Klaudius watched from the floor, measuring whether Scott’s attack created an escape.
Scott rose again and seized the cracked crystal vessel. Stolen power tore through him before anyone could intervene.
He had spent his life believing power proved worth. Now he reached for more than his body could contain.
The crystal flared. Scott screamed as red light consumed the Alpha mark he had abandoned.
Daisy tried to pull the energy away, but he clung to it, refusing to release the fantasy of rule.
“Let go,” she warned.
Scott chose possession one final time. The vessel shattered in his hands.
When the light faded, he lay motionless beside the broken throne, removed by the power he attempted to steal.
Daisy felt no triumph. Scott had been offered choice after choice and treated each one as another opportunity to own someone.
Behind them, Klaudius reached the secret passage. The end of Scott’s threat had purchased the vampire lord enough time to flee.