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Chapter 35

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The dust from the Court's terrified exit hadn’t even settled before the next problem started. Or, more accurately, the next obligation.

Caius didn’t move from the throne for a long time. He just watched the heavy doors swing shut, his fingers drumming a slow, rhythmic beat against the black marble armrest. Julian was still chuckling to himself, looking like he’d just watched the best show of his immortal life, but Caius’s expression was unreadable. It was that cold, calculating mask he wore whe
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  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 46

    The cicadas in Texas had a rhythm I was finally starting to sync with. It was steady, monotonous, and completely devoid of the screaming, desperate resonance of the Wastes.I was sitting in my backyard, my back against the oak tree, watching the shadow stretch across the grass. I had a glass of iced tea on the ground next to me another little lie I told myself but I hadn't touched it in an hour. My focus wasn't on the drink. It was on the air itself.I’d been here for weeks, and the quiet life was proving to be a perfect laboratory. Without the pressure of a Court watching my every move or a King breathing down my neck, I could actually push.I held my hand out with my palm up. I didn't reach for the environment this time. I reached for the raw, unrefined energy that flowed through me the stuff I used to pull from the Pact. I focused on the space just above my skin. I didn't want to manipulate the air; I wanted to force something into existence.I visualized the molecular structure o

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 45

    The silence of Texas was thick, like heavy linen draped over my shoulders. My small rental house was nothing special a one-bedroom box on the outskirts of a town so small that the gas station was the local social hub but it was mine. The porch was perfectly situated, shaded by an old, rusted tin roof that kept the brutal midday sun from ever touching my skin.I spent most of my time in the backyard, tucked away behind a waist-high fence of peeling white paint. I’d set up a single chair in the corner where the oak tree cast a long, cooling shadow.Sometimes, I’d take a walk down to the grocery store. It was just a four-aisle place that smelled of floor wax and overripe bananas. I’d buy a gallon of milk, some bread, or a bag of apples, mostly just to keep the locals from thinking the recluse in the old rental was a serial killer. I didn't need the food, my metabolism didn't work like that anymore, not since the Pact, but the habit of being human was hard to shake. It was a comforting l

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 44

    I closed my eyes and pulled on the Pact. It felt different out here, separated from the palace’s architecture, but it was still mine. I didn't just push the energy out; I folded it. I started weaving a shell around my own frequency, a thick, impenetrable layer of static that would act like a blind spot in the universe. I made it tight, weaving in the same principles I’d used to shield myself from Lysandra’s reach.I checked the seal twice. My footprint was gone. My signature was scrubbed. If Caius reached out through the Pact, he’d find nothing but the echo of the tide. If Julian tried to track the resonance, he’d just hit a brick wall of empty space. I wasn't just hiding; I was erasing myself from their map.I was exhausted. That teleportation had taken a chunk out of me, and the emotional hangover of the last few hours was starting to set in. I needed to move. Now.I focused on the flower shop, I blinked, and the air snapped. I was standing in the cramped, dusty aisle of the shop. I

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 43

    The walk back to the throne room felt less like a stroll and more like a tactical advance. My brain was still buzzing with the sheer insanity of what we’d found. A cosmic dumpster? A pressure relief valve for the universe? It was a lot to process, especially when you factor in the existential erasure part of the job description. Julian was right behind me, his usual snarky composure completely replaced by a twitchy, nervous energy. "So," he muttered, tripping over a loose floorboard. "Do we start with So, Brother, we’re actually garbage, or do we bury the lead and mention the terrifying space-spiders first?" he asked.“Maybe with the facts," I said, not slowing down. "Caius is a King. He’s going to want the strategy before he deals with the existential crisis."We found Caius in a room, it was big , bigger than all the rooms i had seen in this place so far, it was a circular space that looked out over the now-azure horizon of the Wastes. He was hunched over a table, his dark cloak p

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 42

    I looked down at my hands. I could feel the Pact, the blue energy I’d unleashed, the way it was currently woven into every single brick of this palace. I could feel the resonance of the Wastes."If they harmonize with the reality," I said, a plan starting to take shape in the back of my mind, "then maybe I don't have to fight them. Maybe I just have to change the song."Julian looked at me, a mix of terror and begrudging respect in his expression. "You're talking about playing a duet with something that views us as weeds." he said."I'm talking about turning the garden into something they can't afford to prune," I replied, standing up. My legs were stiff, my head was swimming with ancient, terrifying knowledge, but for the first time since I’d come here, I didn't feel like a victim of the plot. I felt like the person holding the pen.I looked at the mountain of books we’d gone through. We were barely scratching the surface, but we knew enough to know that the clock was ticking."Come

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 41

    We spent hours maybe days tearing the place apart. I felt like I was losing my mind, flipping through pages of dead history, reading about wars that had happened before the first star was lit. We were looking for anything—a name, a weakness, a reason why these things were hiding on the other side of a door in my bedroom."Here," Julian finally shouted, his voice cracking from lack of use. He pulled a massive, iron-bound volume from a bottom shelf. The cover was covered in a thick layer of soot, and the pages were stiff with age.He laid it out on a desk, the parchment creaking in protest. It was a map, or at least, the closest thing to one. It showed the portal the same swirling black-and-blue nightmare and surrounding it were dozens of these Weavers. They were working in harmony, moving huge, crystalline shapes, literally stitching reality together."They're not just monsters," I said, leaning in closer, feeling the familiar hum of the Pact resonate with the text on the page. "They’r

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 5

    The air in the vault felt charged, like the split second right before lightning hits. Caius held me tight against him, his hand splayed across the small of my back, pressing me into the hard lines of his body like he was trying to fuse us together. My pulse was going crazy, this frantic drumbeat in

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 4

    The dinner had been straight-up ridiculous, silver platters, crystal glasses filled with some shimmering red liquid that looked way too much like blood, and Caius sitting across from me the whole time, watching every tiny movement like I was a bug under a microscope. I hadn’t eaten a single bite.

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 3

    The air in that massive penthouse wasn’t just cold, it was thin as hell, like the whole place was sitting at some impossible altitude that was actively trying to suck the oxygen out of my lungs. I hadn’t moved an inch from where Caius had left me. My feet were killing me, and my damp waitress unifo

  • Claimed By The Vampire King   Chapter 2

    The transition wasn’t some smooth journey it was a straight-up violation. One second I was shaking on the side of the road, with my heart slamming against my ribs, and the next the air turned thick and stale, like I’d been dropped to the bottom of the ocean.My lungs burned as I tried to suck in a

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