MasukChapter 137Nyx"How long until we know?" Liam asked while hovering anxiously nearby."Hours at minimum," I said. "Maybe days, the transformation doesn't happen all at once.""What do I do?" Ryan asked while sweat already beaded on his forehead. "How do I help my body accept the change?""Try to stay calm," I suggested. "Fighting it will only make the process more painful and potentially less successful.""Calm," Ryan repeated with a slightly hysterical laugh. "Sure, I'll just stay calm while my body rewrites itself.""I'm here," Alex said while moving back to his brother's side. "I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere.""Promise?" Ryan asked while his voice came out small."Promise," Alex confirmed. "Whatever happens, you're not going through this alone."The next few hours were brutal to witness as Ryan's body began processing the bite and fighting the transformation, he alternated between shivering with cold and burning with fever while his brothers and mother took turns sitting
Chapter 136NyxAlex stood there wrestling with impossible choices while tears continued falling, and I felt his anguish through our bond like it was my own pain."I need to think," he finally said. "Need time to process this before I make a decision.""You don't have much time," I said gently. "Your brothers are determined and if you take too long they might do something rash.""Like what?" Alex asked."Like trying to get themselves bitten by wolves who aren't you," I suggested. "Like putting themselves in danger deliberately to force the issue.""They wouldn't," Alex protested but his voice lacked conviction."Wouldn't they?" I challenged. "Ryan has a family to protect, he's desperate enough to try anything, and your other brothers are equally determined."Alex's face paled as he realized I was right, realized that his brothers might take matters into their own hands if he refused, and that thought seemed to terrify him even more than the idea of biting them himself."I need to talk
Chapter 135Nyx"Yes," Ryan said simply. "That's exactly what it requires."Alex turned away from them and I watched his shoulders shake while he struggled with emotions too big to contain, watched him trying to find some way around what his brothers were asking without finding any path that led to safety."What if something goes wrong?" he asked while his voice came out small and broken. "What if I bite you and you die screaming and I have to watch? How am I supposed to live with that?""What if something goes right?" Ryan countered. "What if we survive and become strong enough to protect our families? Isn't that possibility worth the risk?""Not to me," Alex said. "Not when the cost might be losing you.""You're going to lose us anyway if you don't do this," Liam said while his voice gentled. "Either to wolves who come back to finish what they started, or to the guilt of knowing you could have given us a fighting chance and chose not to.""That's not fair," Alex protested while turn
Chapter 134Nyx"That's risky," I said before anyone could respond to Alex's suggestion. "Adrian has an entire pack at his command and we'd be outnumbered.""But we'd have the element of surprise," Ryan pointed out while his mind was clearly already working through strategies. "He's expecting you to run or hide, not come straight at him.""My family wouldn't come with us," Alex said firmly while his protective instincts flared through our bond. "It's too dangerous.""That's exactly why we need to be stronger," Ryan said while exchanging looks with Liam and Jayce that suggested they'd already been thinking about this. "Which brings me to what I actually wanted to ask.""What?" Alex asked warily.Ryan took a deep breath and I watched him steel himself for what he was about to say, watched him square his shoulders the way people did when they knew they were about to suggest something controversial."Can you bite us?" he asked bluntly. "Turn us into wolves like you so we can actually prot
Chapter 133Nyx"Something that just fought off five... what?... Wolves? to protect us," Ryan corrected. "That sounds more like a hero than a monster to me."I felt Alex's shock, felt him struggling to accept that his family might not reject him completely, and I moved to his side while taking his hand in mine."I'm sorry," I said while looking at each of them. "I'm sorry my presence brought danger to your door and I'm sorry you had to find out this way.""Who are you exactly?" Daniel asked while his eyes tracked the fading scales on my arms. "You're not just a wolf like Alex.""I'm half dragon," I admitted. "My mother was a dragon princess and my father was a werewolf, which makes me something that probably shouldn't exist.""And the grave Alex mentioned," Ryan said while pieces clearly clicking together in his mind. "The one he wanted to show you, was that your father?""Yes," I confirmed while gratitude flooded through me that at least one of Alex's brothers was smart enough to con
Chapter 132NyxAlex reacted instantly while shifting mid-movement and throwing himself between me and the threat, and his own wolf emerged with protective fury that shook the walls and made the narrow bed crack beneath us.The attacking wolf snarled and lunged forward but I was already moving, already letting my dragon fire rise to meet the threat even as my body struggled to shift while still tangled in sheets and Alex's protective stance."Stay behind me," Alex's wolf growled but I pushed past him because this wasn't just his fight and I wouldn't cower while danger threatened us both.Fire erupted from my hands and caught the wolf across its flank, sending it stumbling backward with a yelp of pain and surprise, and through the broken window I could see more shapes moving in the darkness outside."There are more," I shouted while my dragon scales rippled across my skin in patches. Shifting felt like a chore I do everyday now, I do it by instinct. "At least five of them circling the







