Semua Bab The Bear's Revenge: Bab 1 - Bab 10

The voice crawled over Kiera’s skin like ice-cold wire.“Subject Subject 3… I knew you’d come running.”Her lungs locked. The world shrank. The forest dimmed around the edges, narrowing into a tunnel pointed straight at that voice—smooth, clinical, familiar in the worst possible way.Her nightmares hadn’t lied.They were here.Ronan moved before thought could form, his body snapping into a defensive stance between her and the looming shadow. The bear—huge, bristling, furious—let out a low, rolling growl that vibrated through the soil.Kiera’s fingernails dug into the log behind her. Her body wouldn’t respond. Her mind was already slipping sideways, dragged back into fluorescent rooms and steel restraints.A memory slammed into her chest.A metal chair. White straps. Her own silent screams echoed against the walls.Her breath quickened into sharp, silent sobs.Ronan’s mind brushed against hers—careful, gentle, grounding.“Stay with me. Don’t let them pull you under.”But the voice—th

Ronan moved before the echo of Dr. Hale’s voice finished bouncing off the cavern walls.The Alpha shifted into a half‑stance—human shape, but claws extended; bones shifting just enough to thicken muscle and sharpen instinct. A ripple of power rolled from him like heat from a wildfire. The bear beside Kiera rose too, fur bristling, body filling the mouth of the cave with a towering wall of muscle and fury.“Come out,” Ronan growled—but the sound wasn’t fully human. It vibrated with an edge of something primal, warning, ancient.Silence answered.Kiera pressed deeper into the cave wall. Her breath hitched, silent and sharp. Her fingers curled into the dirt, nails scraping rock.“He found me. He found me. He found me.”Her thoughts spiralled like a storm building too fast. Ronan felt the surge—her terror spiking so hard it almost knocked the air from his lungs.“Stay back, Kiera. Don’t let him into your head”.The problem was—he had already been there for years.Outside, footsteps approa

Light exploded.Then the world went dark again.Not the peaceful dark of night. Not the protective dark of the cave.A crawling, suffocating darkness — thick as wet cloth against her skin — dragged Kiera down into its depths.Her ears rang. Her pulse hammered. Her mind spun out of control.She tried to reach for something — anything — but there was no ground beneath her, no air in her lungs, no sense of up or down.Just falling. Endless falling.Then—A scream.Her own.Except she couldn’t scream.Except she was screaming, the sound raw and tearing as it ripped out of her chest, echoing into the void. It didn’t make sense. She hadn’t made a sound in years. Her vocal cords were dead, scorched by whatever the lab had done to her.But here, in this nightmare-space, she was shrieking until her throat bled.“Bring her back.”“Increase the voltage.”“Watch the brainwave spikes……. fascinating.”The voices surged around her, overlapping and mutating into distorted echoes.Hands clamped do

Darkness dragged her under again, but this time it wasn’t the cold void of nightmares.It was heavy. Muffled. Chemical.Her heartbeat thudded sluggishly, like it was trying to swim through syrup.Her limbs wouldn’t move.Her mind floated in and out of consciousness, anchored only by flashes— Ronan roaring her name, the bear lunging forward, Hale’s silhouette was moving closer, the sting in her neck, the world tilting.Then nothing.No forest. No firelight. No bond.Just silence.But even in the blackness, she could feel something—A vibration. Rhythmic. Familiar.A heartbeat.Not hers.“Ronan?”Her mind reached for him instinctively, like hands groping in the dark.Nothing answered.Her pulse spiked. The floating sensation shattered. A cold, metallic scent ripped through the air around her—sterile, suffocating, wrong.Her eyes flew open.The world swam into focus in pieces.Metal walls. Dim emergency lights were flickering. The hum of machinery. A long corridor painted the