The weight in my arms changed. One second, I was cradling a corpse, my tears hot and useless against Darius’s cooling skin; the next, his body hummed with a frequency that vibrated through my own bones. The mark on his neck: the jagged, bloody brand I’d just carved into his flesh begun to glow like the sun. I paused, in total confusion. What was happening?It started as a dull, amber throb, but within heartbeats, it intensified into a searing, molten gold. I felt the tether between us snap tight, no longer a fraying cord of grief, but a reinforced cable of raw energy.Darius’s chest heaved.I scrambled back as his eyes snapped open. I’d seen Alphas with eyes of flame, and Betas with eyes of ice, but what I saw in Darius’s sockets belonged to the something I had only seen in textbook. They were a brilliant, terrifying golden-red: the colour of a solar eclipse captured in glass. He was a Hybrid.Darius rose to his feet in one fluid, silent motion. The mud and gore of the clearing seemed
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