All Chapters of Claimed by the Ruthless Wolf Slayer: Chapter 201 - Chapter 210

ALEXANDERI could still hear Alina calling my name, her voice growing more desperate. She didn’t understand what was happening out here. Didn’t know that her salvation was tied to someone else’s death.I looked at the door, then at Lyanna, then at Ryker, who looked as torn as I felt.“What do I do?” I asked. Hoping asking again would change the answer. Even if deep down I knew that wasn’t possible. I just didn’t want to accept ig. “You refuse to choose,” Lyanna said, ever patient. “You demand the impossible. You break the rules of the spell by refusing to play its game.”“And if that doesn’t work?”“Then you save your mate,” her words were sure. “And you remember that I chose this. That this was always my decision, not yours.”The door began to glow, brighter and brighter, the symbols spinning faster. The spell was reaching its peak.A shudder rolled through me. I didn’t know when I stepped back from the door, closing my eyes, reaching deep inside myself for that core of stubborn det

ALEXANDER My ears rang, the blood in my veins heating. My wolf was growling in my head, urging me to let him free so he could end him. I force myself to remain calm.We couldn’t kill Claude’s mother without breaking the curse first, and we couldn’t break the curse without killing or forcing the cooperation of Claude’s mother then. Every second we debated, Alina was dying. My children were dying. The curse was eating away at them.“There might be one way,” Lyanna said quietly. “But it’s dangerous for all of us.”“Tell me,” I demanded.“I can try to absorb the curse,” she said. “Draw it out of Alina and into myself. I’m her doppelganger. We’re connected by the same magic that created this spell. If I can exploit that connection, I might be able to take it from her.”“And what happens to you?”“I die,” she said simply. “The curse will kill me instead of her. But it would break the spell’s anchor, destabilize the whole working. Once I’m gone, the curse dies with me.”“No,” I said immedia

As we left the building that had been Alina’s prison, I felt the structure beginning to crumble behind us. The spell was broken, the curse destroyed. Without them, the magic sustaining the building was failing.We made it outside just as the entire third floor collapsed inward.Dawn was breaking, the first rays of sunlight cutting through the trees. After so many hours of darkness and magic and impossible choices, seeing natural light felt like a benediction.“Let’s go home,” I said.And together, supporting each other, we started the long walk back to pack territory.CHAPTER TENALINAThe journey back to pack territory took two days.I could have sworn it should have taken more time. That the building hadn’t been that far into the forest but Alexander explained that the magic had distorted space. What seemed like a mile in one direction might be three miles in another. The building had existed in a pocket of warped reality, designed to be impossible to find and even harder to leave.

ALINAI woke several more times over the next day and a half. Each time, Alexander was there. Sometimes he was awake, working on pack business from the chair beside my bed. Sometimes he was asleep, his hand never leaving mine.Other visitors came. Ryker, looking haunted but forcing smiles for my benefit. It felt like I had known him forever although I hadn't seen him before they came to that cave. We had become friends… somewhat. But I saw genuine kindness in the way he acted and treated me. I knew I should be cautious with trusting people after what happened with Claude. But this man risked his life to save me, when he didn’t even know me. I knew loyalty when I saw it. And Ryker is the epitome of it.Speaking of loyalty. Since I woke up, Rory has been consistent and by my side. The only time she leaves is when Alexander is there, and then too, he has to give her a stern look. She’d burst into tears when she came into the hospital room. I couldn’t help the few tears–okay, a lot of tea

ALINAVera stepped forward as far as her chains would allow. “Everything she said is true. I did all of it. Gladly. I would do it again if given the chance.” She looked around the hall, meeting eyes without flinching. “You want to know why? Because this pack is built on lies. On nepotism. On the idea that being born to the right parents makes you worthy of power.”“That’s not—” someone started, but Moira raised her hand for silence.“Alexander was born Alpha,” Vera continued. “He never had to fight for it, never had to prove himself. It was just handed to him because of his bloodline. While my son, brilliant, strong, and capable, was relegated to second place simply because of whose womb he came from.”“Your son was given every opportunity—” Alexander started, but Vera talked over him.“Every opportunity except the one that mattered! He could never be Alpha because you were. And nothing he did, no amount of loyalty or strength or dedication, would ever change that. So yes, I helped hi