All Chapters of Claimed by Fangs and Claws: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

The lavender silk curtains fluttered softly in the midnight breeze, but inside the private chamber, the air was suffocatingly warm.Salvatore hadn't left my side after wrapping my wrists. The cool moon-stone ointment had drawn out the burning ache of the silver, but the dark, heavy tension between us had only grown thicker, morphing into a raw, intoxicating heat that made my heart hammer wildly against my ribs.He sat on the edge of the massive canopy bed, pulling me into his lap so that I straddled his broad, muscular thighs. My thin crimson silk nightgown rode up my legs, leaving my plush, voluptuous thighs completely exposed against his heavy dark trousers.Salvatore’s broad hands, rough and calloused, settled heavily on the soft curve of my hips. His fingers dug deep into my plush flesh, leaving scorching prints of heat that made my breath catch in my throat."You drive me out of my mind, Jennifer," Salvatore growled low in his chest, his golden-silver eyes blazing in the dim cand

I stood before the full-length gilded mirror in my lavender gown, my fingertips softly tracing the fresh, tender punctures on the side of my neck. Salvatore’s bite was still warm, the skin beneath my touch inflamed and throbbing with the fierce, possessive magic he had poured into my veins just twenty-four hours ago in the library.His obsession was becoming terrifying. It was a suffocating, wild thing, a dark fire that consumed everything in its path. He looked at me not just as his chosen mate or his marked female, but as something he would gladly burn the entire world to keep locked in his cage. In my past life, I had been completely ignored, treated like a nobody to be discarded. Now, holding the undivided, feral focus of the most dangerous monarch in the realm left me breathless and genuinely terrified.Sinking my teeth into my lower lip, I pulled the silk velvet robe down off my le

The heavy oak doors of Salvatore’s private sanctuary slammed shut with a thundering, definitive boom that echoed in my chest.The sharp metallic click of the deadbolts engaging was followed by the low, reverberating thrum of ancient Lycan warding runes flaring to life across the archways. Salvatore had effectively locked down the entire royal wing, surrounding the perimeter with two dozen elite High Frost guards.I was trapped.I stood in the center of the cavernous, fur-draped bedchamber, my hands trembling slightly as I looked around. Salvatore had paced the room for nearly an hour, his massive frame radiating a suffocating mix of explosive territorial rage and deep, tortured suspicion. He had watched the Blood-Stone turn to pitch-black ash with his own eyes. He had seen me use supernatural, razor-sharp hyper-senses to humiliate Cynthia and force the Elders to their knees. He knew I was no ordinary, low-born she-wolf.Yet, instead of executing me or locking me in the subterranean du

The darkness of the solar eclipse wasn't just in the sky anymore. It was alive inside my veins.For weeks, ever since I woke up in this new life, I had heard faint, ghostly whispers at the edge of my mind whenever the sun went down. Dark, velvety words floating in the shadow of my thoughts, telling me to wait for the sky to bleed black.Now, I finally understood. The eclipse Lucien had spoken of wasn't just a celestial event; it was a key. A cosmic lock turning inside my blood, unlocking power that had been buried deep within my marrow.Standing in the center of the bloody chamber, I could feel the sheer, overwhelming weight of my awakening.It was an intoxicating, terrifying rush. All my life, both in my miserable past life as an unwanted nobody and in this body as a low-born she-wolf, I had felt weak. I had been pushed around,

The cold wind of the dark sky rushed past my face, carried by the cradle of pitch-black magic that floated beneath me like a soft, invisible tide.When the cloud of shadows finally descended, it laid me down gently at the edge of an ancient, untouched forest far beyond the borders of the High Frost realm. Deep within the heart of the woodland sat a serene, crystal-clear pond. The sky above was beginning to clear as the solar eclipse slowly waned, leaving behind a magnificent, brilliant moon that hung like a silver coin in the dark velvet night.I walked slowly toward the water’s edge, my emerald velvet dress rustling softly against the moss.I sat down on a smooth, flat stone by the bank, drawing my knees to my chest as I looked down at my reflection. The moonlight hit the surface of the pond, making the water sparkle like crushed diamonds. In the reflect