LOGINNatashaThe second those eyes opened beneath the shattered floor, every part of my body locked so hard that I could not even force air properly into my lungs anymore because nothing about what I was seeing made sense to my brain, not the size of it, not the way the concrete kept splitting apart around those claws like the entire underground structure was too weak to hold it anymore, and definitely not the intelligence inside those eyes because they were not empty like the other creatures we had encountered throughout the facility.They were aware.Father let out a furious snarl while the claw tightened around his leg hard enough for metal chains to snap loose from his body and whip violently through the air around him, but even then the thing beneath us barely reacted as another section of floor collapsed inward beneath its weight while steam poured upward from broken pipes and wrapped around everything in thick white clouds.“Move!” Matt shouted somewhere behind me, though his voice
AlanI could not stop staring at father after he said those words because every instinct inside me was screaming that whatever was climbing toward us down there was worse than everything we had already survived, and that alone felt impossible after the nightmare we had seen inside this place already, the sound came again.A slow heavy scrape somewhere deep below us followed by another breath so large and uneven that the walls shook around us like the entire underground lab was breathing with it.Every creature in the hallway reacted instantly.Some backed farther away into the shadows while others dropped low against the floor and started making soft whining noises that sounded almost terrified. Even the copy standing near Natasha looked tense now, though its face still barely showed emotion.Father’s chains rattled softly as it stepped backward.“We do not have much time,” it growled.Matt pointed shakily toward the darkness below us.“Then maybe now would be a fantastic time to expl
Chapter 104NatashaThe second the red emergency light finally reached the thing’s face, every scream inside my throat ripped out at once because what stood at the end of that hallway did not look fully human anymore, but there were still enough pieces left to show that maybe it once had been.Its body nearly scraped the ceiling while it moved forward slowly through the steam pouring from the broken pipes around it, and thick chains hung from both of its arms like somebody had once tried to keep it locked down somewhere deep underground before everything went wrong. Parts of its skin looked burned black while other sections looked stretched too tightly over muscle and bone like the body underneath had kept growing long after it should have stopped, but the worst part was its face.One side looked twisted and split apart badly enough that I could see pieces of exposed teeth beneath the ruined flesh, while the other side still looked horribly normal, almost human enough to make my stom
AlanDarkness swallowed everything so fast that for one terrible second I honestly thought I had gone blind completely because there was nothing around me anymore except the sound of screaming alarms, heavy breathing, and the violent roar still shaking through the hallway walls around us like thunder trapped underground.The creature’s hand crushed painfully around my chest while it held me high above the floor without any effort at all, and I could barely drag enough air into my lungs properly because every breath felt tighter than the last one while its massive fingers dug harder into my ribs.“Let him go!” Natasha screamed somewhere nearby, though her voice sounded distant beneath the alarms and the horrible growling echoing through the darkness ahead of us.Then the glowing eyes moved, dozens of them…maybe more.I could not even count properly anymore because they kept appearing deeper inside the hallway one after another while low uneven growls slowly filled the darkness around u
NatashaThe way it said Alan’s name made every single hair on my body stand up instantly because its voice did not sound angry anymore like it had before.It sounded familiar somehow, like it actually knew him personally.The hallway became so quiet afterward that all I could hear was the broken buzzing from the dying lights overhead and Matt’s rough uneven breathing somewhere behind us while dust drifted slowly through the cold air around the giant creature standing near the destroyed doorway.Alan could not stop staring at it, nor could I anymore.The creature’s body looked horribly wrong up close now that more of it had stepped fully into the hallway. Its skin looked stretched too tightly over muscles that moved in strange uneven ways beneath it while long dark veins spread across its neck and arms like giant cracks running through stone walls.Its shoulders were massive beyond belief, far too massive to belong to anything human anymore.Every movement it made caused the floor bene
Alan“It remembers me.”The words barely left my mouth before another violent crash exploded from inside the room, and the sound slammed through the hallway so hard that the entire floor beneath us shook again while pain shot violently through my skull with enough force to nearly make my knees give out beneath me completely.The darkness around us did not feel normal anymore.It felt alive now, heavy and suffocating in a way that made every breath harder to force properly into my lungs while the smell of rust, blood, and burned wires filled the hallway so strongly that it almost made me feel sick.Another low growl rolled out from inside the room behind the broken doorway, but this time the sound came slower and deeper like whatever was inside no longer cared about hiding itself anymore, and hearing it again made cold fear spread violently through my chest because somewhere deep inside my head I recognized it.Not from tonight but from before.From somewhere buried so far inside my me
AlanThe moment the name left my guard’s mouth, every muscle in my body went rigid. For a second, I thought I had heard wrong but the look on his face told me I hadn’t.Rage rose inside me so fast it felt like fire tearing through my veins. My wolf stirred violently under my skin, restless and hung
NatashaI knew why Raymond called Alan. There was something or someone they needed to attend to and I was more than convinced that it was a rogue simply because of everything that was going on in that moment. Alan was vengeful when he wanted to be, at least I had seen that in him in the little time
AlanWalking into Zephyr’s pack, a sense of deja vu hit me all over again because this was the same way I had felt the last time I had been here. I had come here the other day to fight him because I thought he had forcefully taken Natasha from me but now, I could see very well that she had come her
Natasha“Where have you been? The Alpha has been looking everywhere for you.” I looked up from my phone, watching as Sophia hurried towards me, a frantic look on her face. Whatever it was, it had to be disturbing because Sophia was never easily rattled like this. My heartrate spiked because I didn







