POV: Mina (Age 17 - Three Days Until Ceremony)
The Trio stopped pretending somewhere in those final days.
I felt it through the bond the moment it happened. Whatever careful distance they'd been maintaining, whatever framing had allowed them to call this observation or containment or investigation, it dissolved overnight and left something rawer in its place.
Their wolves were driving them now. Human intelligence still present, still directing, but no longer in primary control. The bond had been building for months and it had finally tipped past the point where conscious resistance could fully manage it.
They were hunting me.
Not the structured targeted pressure of before. This was animal. This was three predators following a pull they couldn't name or explain and had stopped trying t
