The pain from the cut on my side was a constant, searing reminder that I was alive, that I was still in the fight. But it wasn’t the blood, the gashes, or the scratches that mattered anymore. It was something deeper. Something that had started to build within me ever since the first drop of blood was spilled, ever since the wolf had finally pushed to the forefront. I had always been part human, part beast. But tonight Tonight, the beast wasn’t just a part of me anymore. It was in me. It was the core of everything I was, everything I could be. And the power hit me all at once. It surged through my veins, wild and untamed, a force I had never felt before. It wasn’t just the strength of the wolf or the adrenaline from the fight—it was something more primal, more electric. It hummed in my b

