ログインLILA’S POV“Primary anchor no longer required. Initiating removal.”The words didn’t feel like a threat.They felt like a sentence already decided.Final.Unavoidable.My breath caught in my throat as the weight of it settled over me, pressing down until it was hard to think, hard to move, hard to even exist.“No…” I whispered.But even that sounded small.Too small.Nathan stepped fully in front of me, his body a shield, his golden aura erupting violently as if he could burn the entire world down to keep me standing.“You’re not touching her,” he said, his voice low, deadly.For the first timeThe figure looked at him.Not past him.Not through him.At him.And that alone made something twist in my chest.Because it meant one thing.It had calculated him as a factor.“Obstacle identified,” it said calmly.Nathan smirked, though there was nothing light in his expression. “Good. Then calculate this.”His energy surged, brighter than I had ever seen, raw and unrestrained as it exploded
LILA’S POV“Love has been identified as the final inefficiency.”The world didn’t shatter.It… dimmed.Like someone had taken everything bright inside me and slowly turned it down until it barely existed.“No…” The word left my lips, but it felt hollow. Weak. Like it didn’t carry the weight it used to.Because I could feel it.That space in my chestWhere love had always burned, loud and messy and overwhelmingWas… quieter.Not gone.Not completely.But distant.Muted.Like it had been pushed behind glass.Nathan saw it instantly.I didn’t have to feel it to know.I saw it in his face.The way his eyes widened, the way something inside him cracked open with raw, unfiltered fear.“No,” he said again, but this time it wasn’t sharp. It was broken. “No, don’t you dare take that from her.”The figure didn’t look at him.It never did.Its focus remained on me.Always me.“Emotional reduction increases stability,” it said calmly.My fingers curled slightly, but even that reaction felt delaye
LILA’S POV“You are what we are becoming.”The words didn’t echo.They settled.Deep.Final.Like something inside me had already accepted them before I could fight back.“No…” I whispered, but it sounded distant even to my own ears.Because I could feel it.That pull.Not violent.Not forceful.But inevitable.Like standing in the ocean and realizing the tide had already decided where you would go.Nathan slammed against the invisible barrier again, his voice breaking through the noise in my head. “LILA! FIGHT IT!”I turned toward him.Slowly.Like my body didn’t fully belong to me anymore.His faceFear.Desperation.Love.So much love.And suddenlySomething cracked inside me.A sharp, painful awareness.“I’m still here,” I said, my voice trembling as tears filled my eyes. “Nathan… I’m still here.”He froze.Just for a second.Then his hand pressed harder against the invisible wall between us. “Then hold onto that. Don’t let them take you.”Them.The word felt wrong.Because they w
LILA’S POV“She is beginning to think like us.”The words didn’t hit me the way they should have.That was the first thing that terrified me.I heard them.I understood them.But the fear… the sharp, panicked reaction that should have followedIt lagged.Like it had to catch up to me.Nathan stepped in front of me instantly, his body tense, his energy flaring brighter than I had seen in days. “No,” he said sharply. “That’s not happening. Whatever you did reverse it.”The figure didn’t move.Didn’t react.It simply watched.Observing.Learning.“Reversal unnecessary,” it replied.Nathan’s jaw clenched. “Try again.”I should have spoken.I should have pushed back, told him I was fine or that we needed a planSomething.Anything.But instead…I found myself watching.Not Nathan.Not the figure.But the space between them.The tension.The pattern.The way energy gathered before conflict.My breath slowed.Too steady.Too controlled.And suddenly..I understood something.Not emotionally.
LILA’S POV“We removed the part of you that hesitates.”The words didn’t just land.They echoed not in the air, but inside my chest, inside my bones, like something had carved them into me.My breath came out uneven.Shallow.Wrong.“No…” I whispered, shaking my head slowly. “You can’t remove something like that. That’s not”“Necessary,” the figure finished calmly.My stomach twisted violently.Behind me, I could feel them.Not just standing.Not just watching.But present.The rejected mates no… not just mates anymore stood in a stillness that felt too complete, too balanced. Their energy didn’t flicker. It didn’t waver.It flowed.Smooth.Stable.Cold.Nothing like the chaos I had fought to control.Nothing like the fear they used to carry.And that terrified me more than anything.Because fear meant they were still human.ThisThis felt like something else entirely.Nathan groaned behind me, still pinned to the ground by that invisible force. I felt his struggle through the connect
LILA’S POV“We are ready.”The words didn’t echo.They settled.Heavy. Final. Unnatural.Dozens of voices speaking at once yet perfectly aligned, like one mind wearing many bodies.My chest tightened so sharply it felt like something inside me cracked.“No…” The word came out broken, barely more than breath. “No, this isn’t this isn’t right.”The mates stood before me no longer trembling, no longer afraid.Still.Too still.Their golden eyes glowed faintly, flickering in uneven pulses that matched the rhythm now thrumming inside my own chest.Not identical.But connected.Nathan stepped closer to me, his body tense, every muscle coiled as if ready to fight something he couldn’t touch. “Lila… say something. They’re looking at you.”I knew.I felt it.Not just their eyesTheir awareness.It pressed against me from every direction, like invisible hands reaching, searching, recognizing.They weren’t just seeing me.They were reading me.“I need to try,” I whispered, even though fear wrapp
LILA’S POVThe forest trembled around us. Shadows stretched like living nightmares, twisting and snapping at anything that dared move. My heart thudded so loudly I was sure the corrupted Nathan could hear it. Every instinct screamed at me to run, to protect my pack, to survive but I couldn’t. Not n
LILA’S POVThe words sank into me like ice-cold daggers: “The king is the Devourer’s first son.” My stomach churned, my legs threatened to give out, and the world felt heavier than it ever had. Every heartbeat pounded with the knowledge that the father I had longed to know, the man who should have
LILA’S POVThe howl echoed through the forest like a blade slicing through the silence.Every wolf in the clearing turned toward the trees.My heart pounded so violently it hurt.Marcus had gone completely still beside me.And that terrified me more than the Devourer.Because Marcus never froze.Ne
LILA’S POVPain.It was the first thing I felt.Not the sharp kind that comes from claws or teeth, but something deeper something burning beneath my skin like molten fire trying to escape.My vision blurred as darkness crept along the edges.“Lila!”Marcus’s voice sounded distant, like it was comin







