~Elara~
The security team fired—not bullets, but darts that struck Marcus mid-leap. He crashed to the floor between us, silver light flickering erratically beneath his skin.
"Containment protocol initiated," Damon said calmly, pressing a button on his device. The effect was immediate and horrifying.
Marcus's back arched off the floor, his scream shifting from human to wolf and back again. Silver light pulsed through his veins in accelerated patterns, his body caught in some terrible loop between transformation and integration.
"Stop it!" I moved toward them, but two security personnel blocked my path. "You're killing him!"
"On the contrary," Damon replied, watching Marcus's convulsions with clinical interest. "I'm stabilizing him. Temporarily, at least."
I reached out with the Algori
