All Chapters of Claimed by Three Alphas, Fated to One: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Audrey’s POVThe alarm shrieked so loud I thought my skull would crack open. Kids were screaming, running, pushing, and someone’s elbow slammed into my ribs, and I went stumbling against a locker, barely able to breathe. Smoke poured out of nowhere, thick and sharp, like a bonfire stuffed into the hallway. My eyes burned, my lungs clawed for air, and all I could hear was that word echoing in my head.Catalyst.He’d said it like a joke, like he knew something about me I didn’t. Like I was already doomed.My stomach turned, and I wanted to throw up, but Derek’s growl dragged me back. He had the hunter pinned against the lockers, arm pressed into the guy’s throat so hard the metal was bending.“Who sent you?” Derek’s voice wasn’t human anymore. It vibrated through the floor.The hunter coughed blood and looked straight past Derek’s shoulder, straight at me. His lips curled, red and broken, and he smirked. He wasn’t even scared.“Answer me!” Derek slammed him harder, lockers denting wit

Derek’s POVThe second that chain hit Audrey’s neck, her scream ripped through me worse than any wound I’d ever taken. The smell burnt flesh, her skin searing snapped something in me. I didn’t think. I just grabbed it.It blistered my palms instantly, silver eating through my skin like acid. I didn’t care. I yanked, pulled, and ripped it like an animal trying to tear its own collar off. Smoke curled off my hands, my claws forcing through, snapping the links one by one until the metal screeched and finally broke loose.She collapsed into me, choking, eyes wide and terrified, and for one second I thought she was gone. My wolf howled inside my chest, clawing at the edge, wanting out, wanting blood, wanting to rip apart every hunter stupid enough to breathe in this building.I almost let him. My vision bled gold, and my chest expanding too fast, teeth aching. I could feel fur breaking through my skin, and the urge to shred was too strong. But her voice hoarse, shaking cut through it.“De

Audrey’s POVI couldn’t stop staring at the blood-smeared page, the words “Catalyst, the one who awakens the True Alpha” still circling in my head like a swarm of wasps. Wolves frozen. Derek burning. Caleb seething. Adrian’s jaw clenched so tight. Everyone looking at me like I was a fucking bomb about to go off. And maybe I was.But later in some hours, maybe two or three? I was in Mrs. Beaumont’s study, and my hands wouldn’t stop shaking as I went through her shelves. Not even because I wanted to. My body just moved. Like if I stopped, if I let myself sit still, I’d collapse.The study smelled like dust and candle wax, heavy like a church. Papers stacked too neatly, and rows of books lined up with military precision. But something felt wrong. Too curated. Like a stage set instead of a real place where someone actually lived.I pulled one of the books out, it was an atlas, heavy as hell. Except when I dropped it on the desk, it rattled.I tore through it. Pages cut out, a hidden com

Derek’s POVI couldn’t sit through another second of hearing Caleb’s voice echo down the damn hallway, his low, calm bullshit about “protecting” Audrey when he’d just admitted he’d known something all along. The look on her face wrecked, like someone had yanked the ground out from under her, was enough to set my chest on fire. I walked away before I snapped his neck.But walking away didn’t help. Running didn’t help. My wolf was clawing at me, whispering that if I couldn’t protect her with my fists then maybe I needed to do it with the truth. And the truth wasn’t gonna come from Caleb, or from Adrian, or from the council.So I ended up in the archives.Every pack had one, even if they pretended they didn’t. Locked in the basement of the old lodge, stacked floor to ceiling with ledgers and dust and the kind of smell that hit the back of your throat like burnt paper. No one came here unless they had to. And nobody “had to” unless the council ordered it, which meant everything in these

Audrey’s POVThe claws never came for me. Not really. The sound just dragged and dragged, echoing in the dark like it wanted me to choke on my own heartbeat, and then there were torches and voices and a dozen hands dragging me down a hall I didn’t even recognize. By the time I realized where they were taking me, I was standing under the vaulted ceiling of the council chamber, the stone walls sweating with old damp, and every elder in Ravenfalls staring at me like I was already guilty of something.I wanted to scream that this wasn’t fair, that they couldn’t just drag me here after Adrian had blown my whole world apart, but the words stuck in my throat. My wrists still hurt where the guards had grabbed me. My chest felt like it was vibrating from the inside out.Adrian was there already, standing stiff near the front. His eyes found me the second I walked in, wide and frantic, but he didn’t move. He didn’t even blink.Caleb leaned against one of the carved pillars like he wanted to bre