Alcyde
"Don't let me go." Sophia's words scrape out barely above a whisper, her brown eyes—finally just hers, finally free of Hannah's amber possession—locking onto mine with desperation that claws through my chest. "Promise me. Don't let—"
Her body convulses, spine arching at an angle that shouldn't be possible without breaking bone. The sound that tears from her throat isn't human, isn't wolf—something between, something wrong. Then she goes limp in my arms, dead weight that sends my heart hammering against my ribs hard enough to crack them.
"Sophia." I shake her, gentle at first, then harder when she doesn't respond. "Sophia, open your eyes. Come on, baby, look at me—"
Nothing. Her chest rises and falls with shallow breaths that whistle wrong, like her lungs are restructuring th
