جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 14

EdricI don’t realize how far Leon has taken me until he slows and the city noise falls far away like it’s been swallowed whole.The gates come first. Tall. Iron. Black metal etched with sigils I don’t recognize but somehow feel, like standing too close to a storm cloud. They open without a sound, sliding apart as if the ground itself knows Leon is coming home.I lay stiffly in his arms, one hand folded in my lap and the other around his neck for anchor, my body still buzzing with the aftershocks of terror and adrenaline. Marcus’s face flashes in my mind without warning, his grin, the way his hand had tightened around my wrist, the certainty in his voice when he thought no one would stop him.Leon had stopped him. Not with words. With instinct. With violence so sudden and brutal that my mind still can’t fully hold it.Leon walks forward, crunching softly over gravel, and then… I forget how to breathe.His house isn't a house. It’s a mansion. No… worse. Better. Older.It rises from the

LeonI lose control and I know the exact moment it happens. It is not when my eyes turn red, not when my bones strain or my skin burns with the need to shift.It happens the moment I feel his fear. It's sharp, bright and alive.My Edric.The scent of it wraps around my throat and tightens like a leash pulled too hard. My wolf surges forward, violent and immediate, claws tearing through restraint I have spent years mastering.“Ours, it snarls. He is ours.”I try to hold it back and I fail.My body betrays me first. I feel muscles locking, expanding, power flooding every limb until it hurts to contain it. My breathing turns ragged, uneven, each inhale dragging more of him into me.His scent, his presence, his pulse… they are all magnified.It is too much and then he moves.I do not remember giving the command but I feel it land.“Dance.”The word leaves me like instinct, not thought and he obeys.The moment Edric moves, something shifts. The chaos does not disappear but it changes shap