MasukRose’s POVDarkness.Not the kind you close your eyes into.Not the kind that fades when you blink.This one stayed.Heavy.Endless.Alive.I didn’t feel my body.I didn’t feel the ground.I didn’t feel anything…Except awareness.And that was worse.Because it meant I was still here.Somewhere.My thoughts came slowly.Like dragging something through thick water.“…am I… dead?”The question echoed.Not outwardInward.And something answered.Not the presence.Not the fragments.Her.“You’re finally quiet.”My breath hitchedOr at least, it felt like it did.“…where are we?”Silence stretched for a moment.Then—“Inside the core.”The word hit differently now.Core.Not a place.Not exactly.More like…The center of everything I was.Everything I sealed.Everything I refused to remember.My vision shifted.Slowly.Like something peeling back.And then I saw it.Not clearly.Not fully.But enough.An endless space.Not black.Not white.Something in between.Like shadows layered over l
Rose’s POVIt stops waiting.Those words didn’t just sit in the air—They settled inside me.Heavy.Certain.Final.I could feel it.That presence—That thing sealed deep inside me—It wasn’t quiet anymore.Not really.It wasn’t pushing like before.It wasn’t clawing at the edges of the seal.It was… still.Too still.Like something that had just realized it didn’t need to struggle anymore.Like something that had found a better way out.My breath came slower now.Careful.Measured.Because I understood something I hadn’t before.The first time, it tried to break free.Now…It was learning.And that terrified me more than anything else.“…it changed,” I whispered.The Lycan King didn’t let go of me.His hand still steady on my arm.Grounding.“What do you mean?”“It’s not fighting,” I said.My voice barely above a breath.“It’s… waiting.”Silence followed that.Not empty.Heavy.Because he understood what that meant.Of course he did.“You’ve forced it to adapt,” he said quietly.That
Rose’s POV“Now… let me out.”The whisper didn’t fade this time.It stayed.Pressed close against my mind like breath on skin.Too real.Too present.My body went rigid.Not frozen—Held.Like something inside me had wrapped around my spine and tightened.My breath came in sharp, uneven pulls.“No…”I didn’t know if I was saying it to the voice…Or to myself.The pressure inside me spiked again.Stronger than before.It wasn’t just pushing anymore—It was testing.Probing.Finding the weak points.My knees buckled slightly.A gasp tore from my throat.The Lycan King caught me before I hit the ground.His grip firm.Steady.Real.“Stay with me,” he said.His voice cut through the noise—Not silencing it…But giving me something else to hold onto.“I’m trying,” I breathed.But it was getting harder.Because that thing—That presence—It wasn’t just pushing against the seal anymore.It was pushing against me.My thoughts.My control.My identity.“You’re tired…”The voice was softer now.
Rose’s POVThat voiceIt didn’t belong.I knew it the second it touched my mind.It wasn’t like the fragments.It wasn’t like her.It wasn’t even like my own thoughts when they spiraled too far.This was… something else.Something older.Colder.Patient.My chest rose sharply as I stumbled back a step.“No…”The word slipped out without thinking.Because instinctPure, raw instinctWas screaming at me to stop.To close that door.To push everything back before it got worse.But it was already too late.I could feel it now.That memoryIt wasn’t opening slowly anymore.It was tearing open.Like something on the other side had been waiting for this exact moment.Waiting for me to loosen my grip.Waiting for me to let it in.My hands curled tightly into fists.My breathing uneven.“…you didn’t tell me this,” I said, my voice shaking as I looked at her.She didn’t look surprised.She didn’t look concerned.She just… watched me.Carefully.Measuring.“I told you enough,” she replied quietl
Rose’s POVMerging.The word didn’t sit right in my chest.It didn’t feel like healing.It didn’t feel like becoming whole.It felt like… losing something.Or worse—Losing myself.I swallowed, my throat suddenly dry.“…what happens if we merge?”My voice came out quieter than I expected.Careful.Because I wasn’t just asking out of curiosity anymore.I was asking because I needed to know what I was risking.Her gaze didn’t leave mine.Not even for a second.And that alone made my skin prickle.Because she didn’t blink much.Didn’t shift.Didn’t react the way a normal person would.Like she wasn’t processing emotions—She was processing outcomes.“You become what you were meant to be,” she said simply.That wasn’t an answer.Not really.“That doesn’t tell me anything.”“It tells you everything,” she replied.I exhaled sharply.“No. It doesn’t. Do I disappear?”That was the real question.The one sitting under everything else.Her expression shifted slightly at that.Not softer.Just…
Rose’s POV“Finally.”That word…It didn’t sound relieved.It didn’t sound happy.It sounded like something that had been waiting too longAnd had just run out of patience.My chest tightened.I couldn’t move.Not because I was frozenBecause something inside me had gone… still.Like every part of me was watching her.Waiting.Recognizing.The girl standing in front of meNo.Not a girl.Not really.She looked like me.Same face.Same eyes.Same body.But everything else?Different.Her posture—too calm.Too controlled.Her gaze—steady in a way mine never was.No confusion.No hesitation.No fear.And that was the worst part.Because I felt all of those things right now.Which meant…She wasn’t just another version of me.She was something I used to be.Or something I tried to get rid of.My breath came out uneven.“…who are you?”I already knew.But I needed to hear it.Needed to make it real.Her lips curved slightly.Not a smile.Not exactly.Something sharper.Something that knew
Rose’s POVThe part of you that didn’t break.The words didn’t feel like a threat.That was the problem.Everything else had felt dangerous—loud, sharp, overwhelming.This?This felt… calm.And that made it worse.Because calm things don’t need to force you.They just wait until you walk in on your
Rose’s POVWe didn’t rest.Not even for a second.The decision—mine, apparently didn’t feel like something I had time to sit with. The moment I said fine, everything shifted.Not dramatically.Not loudly.Just… direction.Like the world had been waiting for me to pick a path so it could finally sta
Rose’s POVThe first has awakened.That sentence didn’t just sit in the air.It settled inside me.Like it found a place and decided—yeah, I belong here now.I couldn’t breathe properly.My hand was still pressed against my chest, fingers digging in like I could hold something together that had alr
Rose’s POVIt is no longer about what you meant.The words didn’t fade.They stayed.Hung in the air like something solid.Like a sentence that had already decided my future and was just waiting for me to catch up.My fingers tightened unconsciously around his hand.Or maybe it wasn’t unconscious a







