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Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 36 : The Trap
Tessa POVThe wind shifted.It was subtle, barely enough to ruffle the hem of my hoodie or stir the curls Elara had pulled into a loose braid for me earlier. But it was there - a shift in the air that made my skin prickle and Sable lift her head inside me."Something’s wrong", she whispered.“Elara,” I said, pausing mid-step on the wooded path just beyond the training fields. “Do you smell that?”Elara stopped beside me, her hand instinctively tightening on the strap of her bag. Her brow furrowed. “I… don’t think so?”But I did. And so did Sable.It was faint - cloaked in pine and earth and the familiar scent of home - but underneath it was something metallic. Something… off.“Let’s head back,” I said, already turning. We didn’t make it more than three steps.The forest went quiet.Not just quiet - silent. No insects. No birds. No wind. Just a vacuum of sound that dropped over us like a shroud.Sable growled low in my chest. "Trap."“Elara - run. Get help.” Before she could argue, I s
Last Updated : 2025-04-07Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 37 : Finaly Free
The cuff was loose.My wrist throbbed, skin slick with blood, blistered raw from the silver, but I didn’t stop. I couldn’t. Sable pushed with me, one beat behind my breath, her presence a molten growl behind my ribs. Not strong enough to shift yet. But close.So close.I braced my foot against the wall and yanked - the silver chain groaned, the mounting bolts whining against stone before the anchor snapped free with a metallic shriek. I collapsed forward, panting, one wrist free, one ankle still bound. The weight of the chain dragged behind me as I rose to my knees, vision swimming.Then I heard it. Footsteps.Deliberate. Confident. Unhurried.Him.I surged to my feet, dragging the chain with me, and stumbled back into the shadows of the cell. The flickering torch barely lit the far side, but I didn’t need light to feel him.Callum.The door creaked open. His silhouette filled the threshold.“Tessa,” he drawled, amused. “You’re awake again.”I said nothing. I waited.He stepped inside
Last Updated : 2025-04-08Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 38 : Blood in the Pines
Dorian POVThe echo of my roar still vibrated through the trees as I stood there, fists clenched, heart pounding like war drums in my chest. My boots dug into the torn ground where she had been taken.Tessa.I could still see the outline of her body in the dirt, half-smudged from the struggle. Her blood painted the roots. Faint. Fresh. Mine.Elara arrived first. Panting, wild-eyed, blood running down her temple where someone had struck her. She dropped beside me, gasping, “I - I tried...”I raised a hand. “You did enough.”But her guilt was thick. Tangible. I could feel it in every shaky breath she took, in the way she couldn’t look me in the eye.I couldn’t handle it. Not now. Not when the only thing I could think about was Tessa being dragged away while I stood miles from her, blind and too godsdamned slow.I dropped to my haunches and breathed deep. In. Out. Again.Nothing.No scent trail. No trace of their pheromones. No unique stink of wolves in heat or fury, or bloodlust.Kael g
Last Updated : 2025-04-09Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 39 : Into the Dark
Dorian POVWe crossed the border at dusk.The pine trees grew gnarled and twisted here, bark blackened from long-forgotten fires. The ground turned soft beneath our boots, marshy and cold. Even the air felt wrong - like it remembered violence. Like it had swallowed screams and refused to let them go.This was rogue territory.No laws. No mercy. No pack bonds. Only blood and bone and chaos.We followed the tire tracks through narrow trails and forgotten hunting roads, Kael guiding me like a compass forged from rage. He could still feel her - just barely.They were close. They were hiding. But they couldn’t run from me. Not with what they’d taken.We found the first outpost hidden behind brambles and stone. A crude watchtower, patched together with metal and rotting wood. I raised a hand, and we surrounded it like a noose tightening.Two rogues stood guard, smoking, laughing. They didn’t laugh long.I moved before they could blink. One caught the glint of my blade - too late. It slid ac
Last Updated : 2025-04-09Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 40 : The Bond
Dorian POVThe stench of blood was thick here. Metallic, sharp. It coated the walls, the floor, the very air.The corridor narrowed as I moved forward, deeper into the bowels of the rogues' hideout. The lamps flickered low on the damp stone, casting elongated shadows that danced like wraiths along the walls%.I passed open cells - some empty, others not. Bones piled in corners. The stink of rot and forgotten screams. Shredded clothing. Shackles rusted with dried blood. One had claw marks so deep they’d scored into stone.Kael’s voice curled in my mind like smoke. “Too late. For them.”But not for her.She was close. I could feel her - like a spark in the dark, a constant tug beneath my ribs. My bond with her was no longer a whisper. It was a scream.Then I saw it - the cell at the far end. The door hung half open. Blood smeared across the handle in streaks - fresh, still glistening.I moved in slow, the way a predator stalks the edge of a kill.Inside, the room was low and narrow. The
Last Updated : 2025-04-10Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 41 : The Bait
Tessa POVThe air outside the cell was colder. Sharper. As if the stone walls themselves had been holding their breath and only now dared to exhale.I stepped into the corridor beside Dorian, my movements stiff, every limb aching. My thigh screamed where it was slashed open, but I didn’t limp. I wouldn’t - not in front of anyone. Not even myself.The scent of blood still clung to me like a second skin. Dried in my hair. Soaked into my shirt. Some of it was mine. Most of it wasn’t.Behind us, the door hung crooked on its hinges. Inside, Callum’s body lay where I’d left it, in pieces, the last of his control rotting with him. I didn’t look back. I wouldn’t give him that.The corridor widened as we moved forward. Our steps echoed off the stone, but it wasn’t empty for long.Two figures waited at the junction ahead, their silhouettes tense and alert, weapons drawn. But they didn’t raise them.Victor stepped forward first, eyes scanning me, then flicking to Dorian as if silently asking: Is
Last Updated : 2025-04-10Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 42 : The Return
Tessa POVThe ride back was quiet, but not empty.Dorian hadn’t let go of me once since we climbed into the SUV. His arm was draped around my shoulders, the other hand never leaving mine, thumb tracing soft, grounding circles against my knuckles. I sat curled into his side, exhaustion seeping into my bones, but I didn’t sleep.I couldn’t.The adrenaline had faded. The pain had settled. But my senses were still raw - like my skin was made of open nerves, every bump in the road humming against my spine.His scent, dark cedar and heat, was the only thing keeping me in place.Outside the windows, the forest blurred past in shades of green and gray. Behind us, Victor and Rylan trailed in a second vehicle with the two surviving rogues chained in silver, drugged and unconscious. We'd pulled everything we could from the compound - maps, names, weapons, notes.But I didn’t care about any of that right now. I only cared about the man beside me.Dorian hadn’t spoken much since we left, but I fel
Last Updated : 2025-04-11Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 43 : Mine
Dorian POVShe lay on my bed like a goddamned vision - wet skin glistening in the low light, bruised, scraped, beautiful. Her hair fanned across my pillow, damp and tangled from the shower. Her chest rose and fell like she was holding back a storm.My storm. And I was done holding back.I prowled toward her, slow and deliberate, every muscle coiled with purpose. Her eyes tracked my every move - wide, glowing gold, her wolf close to the surface. She wasn’t afraid. Not even close.She was waiting for me.Tessa.Mine.The bond pulled at us, bringing us closer. My wolf - Kael - howled inside me, demanding what was owed. What had been denied. What had nearly been lost.I dropped to the edge of the bed, bracing my weight beside her, hands on either side of her hips. My gaze dragged over her body. Each bruise, each scrape, each drop of water still clinging to her skin - they were sacred now. Proof that she’d survived. That she’d fought. That she’d won.“Say it,” I rasped, voice shredded with
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Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 44 : After the Storm Came Next One
Tessa POVThe first thing I felt when I woke up was him.Warm. Solid. Wrapped around me like a promise he had no intention of breaking.My face was buried in his chest, skin against skin, and the rhythm of his heartbeat thrummed through me like a song only my soul knew the words to. I hadn’t opened my eyes yet, but I didn’t need to. I felt him. His emotions. His wolf. His bond.And gods… it was everything.The claiming had changed something. I could feel the tether between us now, golden and blazing and alive. I could feel him inside me still, not just in body but in soul, lingering in every inch of my being like a fire that refused to burn out.I shifted slightly under the sheets, muscles aching in the best way. My thighs still trembled faintly from the night before. My neck throbbed where his mark pulsed beneath the skin, aching in sync with the echo of his bite.And that’s when I felt it. A press of heat against my stomach. Hard. Heavy. Insistent.I blinked my eyes open slowly, and
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 43 : Mine
Dorian POVShe lay on my bed like a goddamned vision - wet skin glistening in the low light, bruised, scraped, beautiful. Her hair fanned across my pillow, damp and tangled from the shower. Her chest rose and fell like she was holding back a storm.My storm. And I was done holding back.I prowled toward her, slow and deliberate, every muscle coiled with purpose. Her eyes tracked my every move - wide, glowing gold, her wolf close to the surface. She wasn’t afraid. Not even close.She was waiting for me.Tessa.Mine.The bond pulled at us, bringing us closer. My wolf - Kael - howled inside me, demanding what was owed. What had been denied. What had nearly been lost.I dropped to the edge of the bed, bracing my weight beside her, hands on either side of her hips. My gaze dragged over her body. Each bruise, each scrape, each drop of water still clinging to her skin - they were sacred now. Proof that she’d survived. That she’d fought. That she’d won.“Say it,” I rasped, voice shredded with
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 42 : The Return
Tessa POVThe ride back was quiet, but not empty.Dorian hadn’t let go of me once since we climbed into the SUV. His arm was draped around my shoulders, the other hand never leaving mine, thumb tracing soft, grounding circles against my knuckles. I sat curled into his side, exhaustion seeping into my bones, but I didn’t sleep.I couldn’t.The adrenaline had faded. The pain had settled. But my senses were still raw - like my skin was made of open nerves, every bump in the road humming against my spine.His scent, dark cedar and heat, was the only thing keeping me in place.Outside the windows, the forest blurred past in shades of green and gray. Behind us, Victor and Rylan trailed in a second vehicle with the two surviving rogues chained in silver, drugged and unconscious. We'd pulled everything we could from the compound - maps, names, weapons, notes.But I didn’t care about any of that right now. I only cared about the man beside me.Dorian hadn’t spoken much since we left, but I fel
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 41 : The Bait
Tessa POVThe air outside the cell was colder. Sharper. As if the stone walls themselves had been holding their breath and only now dared to exhale.I stepped into the corridor beside Dorian, my movements stiff, every limb aching. My thigh screamed where it was slashed open, but I didn’t limp. I wouldn’t - not in front of anyone. Not even myself.The scent of blood still clung to me like a second skin. Dried in my hair. Soaked into my shirt. Some of it was mine. Most of it wasn’t.Behind us, the door hung crooked on its hinges. Inside, Callum’s body lay where I’d left it, in pieces, the last of his control rotting with him. I didn’t look back. I wouldn’t give him that.The corridor widened as we moved forward. Our steps echoed off the stone, but it wasn’t empty for long.Two figures waited at the junction ahead, their silhouettes tense and alert, weapons drawn. But they didn’t raise them.Victor stepped forward first, eyes scanning me, then flicking to Dorian as if silently asking: Is
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 40 : The Bond
Dorian POVThe stench of blood was thick here. Metallic, sharp. It coated the walls, the floor, the very air.The corridor narrowed as I moved forward, deeper into the bowels of the rogues' hideout. The lamps flickered low on the damp stone, casting elongated shadows that danced like wraiths along the walls%.I passed open cells - some empty, others not. Bones piled in corners. The stink of rot and forgotten screams. Shredded clothing. Shackles rusted with dried blood. One had claw marks so deep they’d scored into stone.Kael’s voice curled in my mind like smoke. “Too late. For them.”But not for her.She was close. I could feel her - like a spark in the dark, a constant tug beneath my ribs. My bond with her was no longer a whisper. It was a scream.Then I saw it - the cell at the far end. The door hung half open. Blood smeared across the handle in streaks - fresh, still glistening.I moved in slow, the way a predator stalks the edge of a kill.Inside, the room was low and narrow. The
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 39 : Into the Dark
Dorian POVWe crossed the border at dusk.The pine trees grew gnarled and twisted here, bark blackened from long-forgotten fires. The ground turned soft beneath our boots, marshy and cold. Even the air felt wrong - like it remembered violence. Like it had swallowed screams and refused to let them go.This was rogue territory.No laws. No mercy. No pack bonds. Only blood and bone and chaos.We followed the tire tracks through narrow trails and forgotten hunting roads, Kael guiding me like a compass forged from rage. He could still feel her - just barely.They were close. They were hiding. But they couldn’t run from me. Not with what they’d taken.We found the first outpost hidden behind brambles and stone. A crude watchtower, patched together with metal and rotting wood. I raised a hand, and we surrounded it like a noose tightening.Two rogues stood guard, smoking, laughing. They didn’t laugh long.I moved before they could blink. One caught the glint of my blade - too late. It slid ac
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 38 : Blood in the Pines
Dorian POVThe echo of my roar still vibrated through the trees as I stood there, fists clenched, heart pounding like war drums in my chest. My boots dug into the torn ground where she had been taken.Tessa.I could still see the outline of her body in the dirt, half-smudged from the struggle. Her blood painted the roots. Faint. Fresh. Mine.Elara arrived first. Panting, wild-eyed, blood running down her temple where someone had struck her. She dropped beside me, gasping, “I - I tried...”I raised a hand. “You did enough.”But her guilt was thick. Tangible. I could feel it in every shaky breath she took, in the way she couldn’t look me in the eye.I couldn’t handle it. Not now. Not when the only thing I could think about was Tessa being dragged away while I stood miles from her, blind and too godsdamned slow.I dropped to my haunches and breathed deep. In. Out. Again.Nothing.No scent trail. No trace of their pheromones. No unique stink of wolves in heat or fury, or bloodlust.Kael g
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 37 : Finaly Free
The cuff was loose.My wrist throbbed, skin slick with blood, blistered raw from the silver, but I didn’t stop. I couldn’t. Sable pushed with me, one beat behind my breath, her presence a molten growl behind my ribs. Not strong enough to shift yet. But close.So close.I braced my foot against the wall and yanked - the silver chain groaned, the mounting bolts whining against stone before the anchor snapped free with a metallic shriek. I collapsed forward, panting, one wrist free, one ankle still bound. The weight of the chain dragged behind me as I rose to my knees, vision swimming.Then I heard it. Footsteps.Deliberate. Confident. Unhurried.Him.I surged to my feet, dragging the chain with me, and stumbled back into the shadows of the cell. The flickering torch barely lit the far side, but I didn’t need light to feel him.Callum.The door creaked open. His silhouette filled the threshold.“Tessa,” he drawled, amused. “You’re awake again.”I said nothing. I waited.He stepped inside
Save Me, Claim Me Chapter 36 : The Trap
Tessa POVThe wind shifted.It was subtle, barely enough to ruffle the hem of my hoodie or stir the curls Elara had pulled into a loose braid for me earlier. But it was there - a shift in the air that made my skin prickle and Sable lift her head inside me."Something’s wrong", she whispered.“Elara,” I said, pausing mid-step on the wooded path just beyond the training fields. “Do you smell that?”Elara stopped beside me, her hand instinctively tightening on the strap of her bag. Her brow furrowed. “I… don’t think so?”But I did. And so did Sable.It was faint - cloaked in pine and earth and the familiar scent of home - but underneath it was something metallic. Something… off.“Let’s head back,” I said, already turning. We didn’t make it more than three steps.The forest went quiet.Not just quiet - silent. No insects. No birds. No wind. Just a vacuum of sound that dropped over us like a shroud.Sable growled low in my chest. "Trap."“Elara - run. Get help.” Before she could argue, I s
