Mag-log in• 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
• CALEB •My face was on fire. That was the first thing I noticed. The second thing I noticed was that neither Jason nor Nelson looked remotely embarrassed.Which felt unfair.Completely unfair.Because somehow I was the one standing here looking like my brain had short-circuited while both of them
• CALEB •I think my brain genuinely stopped working after that. Because Jason just casually confessed he loved me in the middle of a park while looking at me like I personally invented happiness. Then Nelson followed immediately after like this was a coordinated emotional attack designed to ruin m
• CALEB •I still think this entire thing is suspicious. That was my official opinion while standing in front of the cabin mirror wearing one of Jason’s hoodies because apparently all my clothes had either blood on them or emotional trauma attached.“You’re taking too long,” Jason shouted from down
• JASON •“What the fuck just happened?”Nelson asked the question quietly, but honestly my own brain had been screaming the exact same thing for the past five minutes.Because somehow we finally found our mate after one entire month of grief and emotional insanity…Only for Caleb to treat us like







