All Chapters of Claimed By The Vampire King: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

"Lysandra," I whispered, the name tasting like ash in my mouth."She hasn't just been plotting against the throne," Caius said, turning his gaze toward the dark, suffocating line of the woods. "She’s been dissecting the foundation of our reality and she’s started with you."The realization hit me harder than any physical blow. I wasn't just training in the woods. I’d walked right into a trap, and I had been too blind, too inexperienced to even notice the bars. I felt a flicker of that old, familiar helplessness, but beneath it, something sharper began to take hold. A cold, quiet resolve."If she’s using my own energy to keep me locked in," I said, my voice steady despite the adrenaline spiking in my chest, "then she’s connected to me. If she’s connected to me... I can find her."Caius looked at me, a flicker of surprise crossing his features. "It’s too dangerous. If you try to trace the connection, she’ll know exactly where you are.""She already knows where I am," I said, gesturing t

I didn't wait for her to solve the riddle. I stopped looking and started reaching. I stopped playing the part of the battery. I grabbed the thread of her existence that tether she’d hooked into my soul to siphon my power and I didn't just hold it. I coiled my fingers around it and yanked.The sound wasn't in the woods; it was inside my own skull. A high-pitched, screeching wail of reality tearing at the seams. I didn't care about the toll it took on me, the way my brain felt like it was being scorched. I poured every bit of that growing, evolving power into the connection. I turned the tether into a hook, and I pulled.The Veil didn't just open, It collapsed.Reality folded in on itself like a crushed soda can. The air in the woods hissed as the pressure dropped, and then, with a sound like a wet thud against the dirt, the connection snapped.I opened my eyes. I was still sitting in the mud, the decaying bones of that old house looming behind me, but the silence was gone. My arms were

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 when he was dismantling a kingdom.He stood up, his cape settling like liquid shadow, and walked down the steps toward me. When he stopped, he was close enough that I could feel the unnatural chill radiating off him the kind of cold that reminded you he wasn't just a man, but the anchor for something ancient and hungry."They're afraid," I said, looking at the empty hall. "That was the point.""Fear is a temporary currency, Andrea," Caius replied, his voice low and vibrating. He reached out, his lo

He pulled his fingers from me and shoved my thighs wider apart. The blunt head of his cock pressed against my entrance, teasing, before he thrust in with one powerful stroke, burying himself to the hilt. The stretch was exquisite almost too much. I cried out, nails digging into his shoulders as he filled me completely, the ancient power of him pulsing inside me.He didn't give me time to adjust. He began to move, deep, hard strokes that rocked the bed. Every thrust dragged against that sweet spot inside me, sending sparks of pleasure racing up my spine. I wrapped my legs around his waist, meeting him thrust for thrust, our bodies slapping together in a filthy, perfect rhythm. His mouth found my throat again. This time his fangs sank in.White-hot ecstasy exploded through me as he drank. The Pact flared, flooding me with his power while I clenched around his cock. My orgasm crashed over me waves of blinding pleasure that made my vision spark with the same blue light I'd summoned into t

The walk back to the palace didn’t take nearly as long as it felt like it should have, mostly because Julian decided to spend the entire trek making cynical bets on how long it would take the various Houses to start groveling at my feet now that the blue sky had officially broken the local aesthetics. By the time we reached the main courtyard, the sun or whatever this new celestial body was that hung in our reclaimed sky was starting to dip, casting long, sharp shadows across the obsidian tiles.Caius was waiting for us at the top of the grand staircase. He looked like he’d been standing there for a while, his posture coiled and watchful. As we approached, he didn't give Julian a second glance, though the younger brother offered a mock-salute and a grin that practically screamed, I’m leaving before things get weird."Finally," Caius said, his voice dropping into that low, resonant register that seemed to vibrate in the soles of my boots. He didn't wait for a greeting. He just held ou