Alara’s POVHe did not wake gently. There was no slow flutter of lashes. No confused inhale into borrowed air.Xavier came back like a warrior breaching the surface of deep water — violent, gasping, eyes burning gold and black all at once.Marcus rose with him, not raging, not fully controlled, but balanced on the edge of eruption.I was still kneeling beside him when his body arched under the strain of returning consciousness. The fused mark at his shoulder — Lycan and Crescent intertwined — glowed faintly beneath torn skin.It had stabilized him, not fully, but enough. His pulse surged erratically beneath my palm — too fast, too powerful.The Lycan was still guarding the threshold between life and death, still refusing to release complete control.“He’s alive,” one of the healers breathed.Xavier’s gaze locked onto mine, wild, unaware, and struggling. “You pulled me back,” he rasped.“I did.”His fingers tightened around my wrist with sudden, bruising strength.“You shouldn’t have.
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