My paws were still stained with warm blood.
My lungs gasped under the weight of a battle just ended—
and yet, the most brutal part was only beginning.
Not outside.
Inside.
I felt Selene move in the fusion like a storm locked in a cage.
There was something in her… no—something different about her.
She was no longer just the wolf I had loved.
She was something bigger.
Darker.
More relentless.
“We can’t kill her,” I murmured—though it wasn’t a murmur.
It was a thought, directed at her, at that boiling core of power we now shared.
“Irina… she carries our child.”
The idea froze me. I could barely say it aloud. But through our bond—this bond with Selene—I felt the truth strike every fiber of my soul.
“Our child,” her voice echoed inside me, venomous.
“Our child was conceived thro
