Rose’s POVIt stops waiting.Those words didn’t just sit in the air—They settled inside me.Heavy.Certain.Final.I could feel it.That presence—That thing sealed deep inside me—It wasn’t quiet anymore.Not really.It wasn’t pushing like before.It wasn’t clawing at the edges of the seal.It was… still.Too still.Like something that had just realized it didn’t need to struggle anymore.Like something that had found a better way out.My breath came slower now.Careful.Measured.Because I understood something I hadn’t before.The first time, it tried to break free.Now…It was learning.And that terrified me more than anything else.“…it changed,” I whispered.The Lycan King didn’t let go of me.His hand still steady on my arm.Grounding.“What do you mean?”“It’s not fighting,” I said.My voice barely above a breath.“It’s… waiting.”Silence followed that.Not empty.Heavy.Because he understood what that meant.Of course he did.“You’ve forced it to adapt,” he said quietly.That
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