تسجيل الدخول• JASON •The moment I saw him, I didn’t think. I just moved. Caleb was standing there in the clearing, still wrapped in Nelson’s jacket, looking like he had been dropped straight out of a nightmare and told to make sense of it on his own. That alone was enough to snap something inside my chest clean in half.My wolf surged forward before I could even slow myself down.We both felt it at the same time.Wrongness.The air still carried it, thick and lingering like something had been burned into the forest and refused to fade properly. Vampire scent. Fresh enough to make Weather snarl the moment we stepped closer.And Caleb… Caleb looked confused. Not injured. Not panicked in the way you expect after a fight. Just… lost in a way that didn’t belong on him.That was worse.Because Caleb was never just gone mentally like that unless something had touched something deeper.“Tell me you are okay,” I said immediately as I reached him, my voice coming out sharper than I intended. I didn’t care
• CALEB • I don’t understand what is wrong with me. That thought kept repeating itself in my head like a broken loop I couldn’t shut off. Every time I tried to open my mouth and explain what happened, it was like my words refused to form properly, like something inside me kept hitting a wall and bouncing back into silence. “I don’t know,” I finally said again, even though I hated how weak it sounded. “Everything just vanished.” And it wasn’t even a lie. That was the worst part. It really did feel like everything had just slipped through my fingers. One moment I was standing there, aware, speaking, reacting, and the next moment it was like someone had cut a piece of time out of my head and thrown it away where I couldn’t reach it anymore. Stormy shifted inside me immediately, restless and uneasy. This is not okay, Caleb. “I know,” I muttered under my breath, more to myself than anyone else. “This shit is not okay at all.” My chest felt tight in a way I couldn’t explain
•NELSON• The moment I reached the clearing, I already knew something was wrong. It wasn’t just the silence. Silence in a forest was normal if you trained long enough to understand it. Silence could mean peace. It could mean waiting. It could mean a predator holding its breath just beyond sight. But this silence felt wrong in a way that crawled under my skin and refused to settle. Rain felt it before I did. His presence inside me shifted instantly, no longer playful or curious like he had been earlier when we were tracking Stormy’s chaotic trail through the woods. Now he was alert, rigid, fully awake in a way that made my senses sharpen painfully. Danger. Not distant. Close. I slowed my steps as I approached the edge of the clearing, every instinct screaming at me to move carefully. The trees opened gradually, and the moonlight spilled down into the space ahead like something revealing a secret it had been hiding. And then I saw my omega. Caleb. He was standing alone in the m
•CALEB•The vampire’s words didn’t leave the air. They stayed there instead, heavy and stubborn, like the forest itself refused to let them fade.You are still the same.That was what he said first, like it was the simplest thing in the world, like I was supposed to understand what he meant without feeling like my mind was being dragged through fog.I stood there beneath the trees completely naked, still trying to steady my breathing from the strange flashes that had hit me earlier. My body still didn’t feel fully mine. Something about the way Stormy had taken control and then stepped back left me unsettled in a way I couldn’t explain. Even now I could feel him somewhere inside me, restless, watching, listening, like he was pretending to relax when he clearly wasn’t.The vampire didn’t move closer. He just studied me like I was a memory he was trying to reconstruct from broken pieces.“You still don’t remember,” he said again, softer this time.Stormy growled inside my head immediatel
• CALEB •One moment Stormy was happily tearing into a deer like he hadn’t eaten in a thousand years. The next moment?We were chasing another one. I honestly had no idea what was wrong with him. The first deer wasn’t even finished. Half of it was still lying in the clearing behind us.Yet somehow Stormy had spotted another animal and immediately decided that was the most important thing in existence.Branches snapped beneath our paws as we ran through the forest.“Stormy.”No answer.“Stormy.”Still nothing. The giant wolf was completely focused on his new target.“Are you seriously chasing another deer?”“Hunting.”“You already caught one.”“Yes.”“So why are we chasing another one?”“Because it’s there.”I stared into the shared space of our mind.“You are unbelievable.”“I’m talented.”“You’re greedy.”“Also true.”I groaned. Twenty seven years of existence and somehow I ended up bonded to the most ridiculous wolf in history. The deer disappeared between a cluster of trees.Stormy
• JASON •Stormy was insane. Absolutely insane.The wolf had disappeared for weeks, returned with ancient memories, took control of our mate’s body, flirted shamelessly with everyone breathing around him, and somehow still managed to make people like him.Which was the problem. Because despite all of that…I liked him too. Moon Goddess help me. I liked his ridiculous confidence. I liked how he constantly annoyed Caleb. I liked how he somehow brought life into every room he entered.And if I was being completely honest?The chaos felt less terrifying when Stormy was around. But there was a limit.And if that wolf actually ran off with our omega and got him hurt, I would personally find a way to throw him back into whatever corner of Caleb’s mind he came from.Forever.Because as much as I enjoyed Stormy’s presence, Caleb was what mattered.Caleb without Stormy was still Caleb.Still our mate. Still the person I loved. Stormy wasn’t the reason I stayed. Caleb was always Caleb. Weather s
•JASON•The word came out sharper than I intended, cutting through whatever argument Nelson was about to build.I didn’t even give him space to breathe. Because if I did, he would start pulling me into the same spiral he was already drowning in.No logic. No restraint. Just instinct and that danger
•JASON•I stared at my brother like he had finally lost whatever sanity he had left. Not the usual kind of crazy Nelson carried around like a second skin.No.This was different, this was the kind of madness that could get us both killed.“Mark him.” The words still echoed in my head like he hadn’t
•NELSON•“Alpha Nelson…” Derick’s voice cut through my head without warning, sharp through the mind link, and every instinct in me went on alert immediately. Not because of what he said. But because of what I was holding in my arms.My mate.I tightened my grip slightly around him as I moved throug
•JASON•“I think we should get a healer.” I said louder than I intended, but I didn’t take them back. Because I could feel it, every passing second slipping his breath was getting weaker.If this kept going, he would be dead in minutes. And the worst part? I couldn’t even feel his wolf, no trace of







