Semua Bab Bride of the Human Alpha: Bab 81 - Bab 84

[Lyra's Pov - Two Weeks After the Rescue]The visions had been screaming for days before I finally convinced the adults to move the extraction timeline up. I'd seen Ronan and Sera breaking—not physically dying but something worse. Psychological dissolution. The futures where they returned whole and sane required early intervention.Even knowing I'd been right didn't make watching them recover any easier.Sera sat in her parents' home, barely speaking. Her mother had tried everything—diplomatic conversations, tactical discussions, simple presence. Nothing reached through whatever walls Silverpeak had built in her mind during those nine hours of "transformation."I found her in the garden, staring at flowers without really seeing them."You're wondering if they were right," I said, sitting beside her without preamble. Prophets didn't have the luxury of gentle approaches—we saw too much to waste time on careful social navigation."About what?" Her voice was flat, distant."About whether

[Asha's Pov - Four Years Later] I watched Damon from across the training yard, analyzing his movements with the same scrutiny I'd been applying for two years. Every shift, every decision, every moment of choice—I watched for signs that True Reform's conditioning still lingered beneath the surface. He moved with fluid confidence, his wolf responding to his commands with perfect integration. Nothing like the hesitant, glassy-eyed compliance we'd seen when we first extracted him from Silverpeak. Two years of deprogramming, two years of recovery, two years of proving he'd reclaimed his individual consciousness. Two years of me fighting my attraction to him, then falling in love, while terrified it might not be real. "You're watching him again," Ronan observed, settling beside me. My twin could always sense when I was spiraling into doubt. "Asha, he's been clear for two years. No signs of relapse. No conditioning indicators. He's himself." "Or he's programmed so deeply that we can't d