Third Person POV
Trigger Warning:
This scene contains graphic depictions of violence, gore, and intense emotional distress, including blood, battlefield injury, and brutal combat. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
Suggested Background Song:
"Bones" by Imagine Dragons
Stan's paws thundered against the broken tiles of the hallway, claws screeching as they scraped over the blood-slick floor of what once was his packhouse. The building trembled around him, groaning under the weight of dark magic. His heart beat louder than the chaos—each pump filled with desperation, with fury, with one singular purpose: get to Aurora.
The scent of decay crawled through the corridors, thick and cloying like smoke. It tangled with the copper tang of blood and the unmistakable perfume of his mate. But
