Claimed by the Alpha I Hate – Episode 67
The stone door sealed with Lucien’s magic. Dust fell from the ceiling as the chamber continued breaking apart.
Klaudius laughed. If he could not keep the throne, he intended the mountain to bury every rival.
Nolan searched for another exit while Daisy held back her father’s attack.
The blood channels filled with unstable power. Each strike accelerated the collapse.
Daisy realized killing Klaudius inside the chamber would release centuries of energy at once.
“We have to drain the room first,” she told Nolan.
He found old ventilation shafts leading upward, too narrow for a wolf but wide enough to carry magic.
Daisy redirected the blood channels toward them. Red light climbed through the mountain and burst harmlessly into the dawn sky.
Klaudius tried to stop her. Nolan intercepted him, accepting wounds to keep him away from Daisy.
“You would die for her?” Klaudius asked.
“I would live with her,” Nolan replied. “That’s what you never understood.”
Daisy felt the answer through the bond. Their future mattered more than revenge.
She drained the final channel. Klaudius’s connection to the blood throne vanished.
Without stolen power, he appeared older and smaller, a tyrant reduced to what was truly his.
Daisy offered him surrender. Nolan respected the choice despite everything Klaudius had taken.
The vampire lord answered by driving a hidden blade toward her.
Nolan caught his arm. Daisy released a final pulse that tore Klaudius’s remaining power free.
The recoil threw him against the cracking throne. Stone collapsed around him.
Nolan pulled Daisy toward the ventilation passage as the chamber fell. Together they climbed through smoke and shattered rock.
Behind them, Lord Klaudius disappeared beneath the throne he had sacrificed everyone to preserve.