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Lucas POVIt had been three days since the wedding, three days since Emily disappeared from my arms.Joe was many things, but careless was not one of them.This was a message.You’re behind.The fire had destroyed most evidence, but not all of it.One of the trackers approached cautiously.“There’s something strange,” he said.He handed me a small metallic fragment.It looked like part of a container. Smooth. Silver. Not burned.“Found near the back seat,” he added.Chris took it from my hand and studied it carefully.“This isn’t from the car,” he said. “It’s too intact.”My jaw tightened.“What is it?”Chris hesitated.“It looks like part of a medical injector.”My chest went cold.Injected.The dart from the wedding.“They sedated her twice,” I muttered.Chris nodded grimly.“They didn’t want her conscious.”I turned away from the wreckage.If she had been awake, she would have fought.And if she had fought—I forced the thought away.Emily was strong.Stronger than she believed.Th

Lucas POVThe ride back was silent.Emily sat beside me in the back seat, wrapped in my jacket. Her head rested against the window, but I knew she wasn’t sleeping. Her eyes were open, staring at the passing darkness.The forest blurred by.The world looked the same.But nothing was the same.Chris drove. The others followed behind us in the second vehicle.No one spoke for the first hour.I kept my hand over hers.She didn’t pull away.But she didn’t squeeze back either.Her fingers were cold.Not physically cold.Just distant.Finally, she spoke.“Did anyone die?”Her voice was small. Careful.I answered honestly.“Not that we saw.”She swallowed.“That building…”“It was going to collapse anyway,” I said gently. “Joe designed it that way.”She turned slightly toward me.“I felt it fighting me.”I didn’t interrupt.“It was like… like the walls were alive. Like they were holding something down. And when I pushed back…” She trailed off.“You survived,” I said.She closed her eyes.“Tha

Lucas POVFor a moment, no one moved.The crack in the ground stretched wide across the field, like the earth itself had been torn open. Dust floated in the air, and the night suddenly felt colder.I stood in front of Emily without thinking.My body reacted before my mind could catch up.I had to protect her. That was all that mattered.“What is that?” one of the guards whispered.No one answered him because no one knew.The ground trembled again.Not like before.This was not Emily.I knew the difference now.What I felt earlier in the facility… that had been her power. Wild, but still connected to her.This—This felt foreign.Wrong.“Everyone, step back,” I ordered.The guards obeyed quickly, spreading out but keeping their eyes fixed on the crack.Emily’s hand gripped my arm tightly.“It’s still there,” she whispered.“What do you feel?” I asked quietly.She swallowed.“It’s moving… slowly… like it’s searching.”My jaw tightened.Searching.“For what?” I asked.She didn’t answer i

Lucas POVI could not sleep at all that night, even after Emily finally drifted off beside me. While her breathing grew steady, I stayed wide awake, my mind refusing to quiet down. Every time I tried to close my eyes, the same terrifying images returned — that creature rising from the ground, the way it moved with hunger, and especially the way it reached out for her. Most disturbing of all was how it reacted when she pushed it back; I saw a flash of recognition, as if it already knew her or at least understood exactly what she had become.I turned my head slightly and looked at Emily lying next to me. She appeared peaceful in her sleep, her face calm as though nothing unusual had happened earlier. Yet I knew better than to believe that surface calm. I could still sense the faint energy around her body, it was not as wild or dangerous as before, but still present now, like a current that never fully switched off. She was changing and I realized I had to change with her if I wanted to

Lucas POVFor a moment, I could not move.My body was ready to react, ready to pull her away, ready to do something—anything—but something held me in place. It was not fear. It was something else. Something deeper. The way Emily stood there, completely still, her hand pressed against that dark shape, it did not look like she was being attacked. It looked like she was… connected to it.And that thought terrified me more than anything else.“Emily,” I called again, my voice lower this time, controlled, but tense.She did not answer.The corridor trembled again, harder this time. The walls groaned as thin cracks spread across them like veins. The air felt thick, almost hard to breathe, like something was pressing against my chest. The guards from the other end of the hallway started shouting, but their voices sounded distant, like they were far away even though they were not.My eyes never left her.Her back was straight.Her hand was still raised.And that thing—That shadow—It was no