Sage´s POV
I didn’t take long to wake up. It had just been a faint, a moment of weakness. I was in my human form again, naked, with Lean still inside me. He hadn’t fully left. Zack was beside me, guarding me.
The forest burned with a hostile silence.
There was dried blood on my skin, lingering marks of battle that hadn’t yet faded, but that wasn’t the worst part.
The worst part was the feeling in my chest. Not pain, exactly, but… fracture.
As if something inside me had started to crumble.
I staggered, leaning on a tree trunk. The bark was rough against my palm, but it held me. That was more than I could say for my mind.
Lean.
My inner voice called to him, barely a whisper, barely a breath.
I feel him too… he’s tired.
The fusion—so powerful, so glorious at its peak—now felt like a
