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ZARA Darkness snaps around me as I wake with a sudden jolt.For a moment, nothing makes sense. My mind struggles to catch up with my body. Then it slowly clicks into place. Felix must have carried me upstairs after I fell asleep.A slow breath leaves my chest.I sit up in the bed, still a little dazed. The sheets slide off my lap as my eyes move around the dim room.The other side of the bed is empty.The quiet presses in around me.My gaze drifts to the alarm clock beside Damian’s side of the bed. The glowing numbers read a little after one in the morning.My heart begins to beat faster.Felix must be in the bathroom. Or maybe he went downstairs to switch off the lights after bringing me up here. Those are normal things. Reasonable things.Yet the thought refuses to settle.Something feels wrong.A tight feeling spreads through my chest.The sheets are pushed aside as I climb out of bed, the sudden movement sending a small rush of cold air over my skin. My hand reaches for the lamp

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FELIX Cassandra’s smug smile still refuses to fade. It stays there, sharp and irritating, like something pressing against a sore spot. Hard to believe she has shown up in my dreams again.She always wanted to be important. Always wanted people to notice her. Wanted to be someone who mattered. Looking at her now, that old goal feels strange. The girl who chased attention now looks like the next closest thing to Freddy Krueger.That is what she seems to be becoming.“You should have listened to me. I could have helped you,” she says.Her voice carries that familiar I-told-you-so tone she always used.“Yeah, well. Would have, could have, should have,” the answer slips out while my eyes move slowly around the room.Something is off.The forest was here just seconds ago.Dark trees. Heavy shadows. Quiet air that felt deep and still.Almost peaceful in a strange way.Now it is gone.Instead, the history classroom has returned. The same one from earlier today at Crescent Academy. Desks a

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ZARA A pulse of magic lifts us instantly into the kitchen. Light floods the room, crisp and bright. It's the only place I can see clearly enough to figure out what shape my mate is in.Thoughts try to wander, but they get shoved aside. None of that matters. Right now, the only thing that matters is making sure Felix is alive and okay. Everything else can wait.The kitchen table isn't meant for this. Hard wood, narrow, uncomfortable. But it's better than the cold, hard floor. Magic carries his weight carefully, slowly, and I set him down across the surface.He doesn't move.Not a twitch. Not a breath that I can see.Skin that usually glows with warmth and color looks pale, almost drained. The red around his mouth is shocking against it, and his chest is streaked in blood. Some of it is dry and crusty, flaky under my touch. Other parts are wet, shiny in the light.It makes my stomach twist.A thought sneaks in before I can stop it. How long was he lying there, out in the Shadow Wood

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FELIX The dream begins to change the moment I step away from the door of the Nightmare Hall.The walls around me begin to soften. At first it looks like heat moving across stone, but then the surfaces start to melt away. The classroom fades slowly, piece by piece, until there is nothing left of it.In the next moment I am no longer inside.A wide open field stretches out in front of me.Bright sunlight covers the grass. The sky is clear and warm above my head. A light breeze moves through the air, carrying the faint smell of earth and wild plants.This place should feel strange.But it doesn’t.Instead, a strong wave of déjà vu settles over me.The feeling sits deep in my chest. Quiet but firm.This place has been seen before.I know that much with certainty.When it happened, or why, those answers stay just out of reach. The memory feels close, like something hiding behind a thin wall in my mind.A slow step forward carries me into the field.The moment I move, people begin appearin

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ZARA Anger runs through my body like fire in my blood. The memory of that scene in the Shadow Woods rises again without warning, sharp and clear, and the anger burns hotter the longer I think about it.That whole thing was staged.The thought settles firmly in my mind as the memory unfolds again. The moment I allow myself to really look at it, the truth feels obvious.The image of what I saw when I found Felix flashes back again. The girl lying there. The blood. The way everything looked placed just right, almost too perfect.Someone wanted that scene to look a certain way.Someone wanted me to believe Felix killed her.But that cannot be true.The idea itself feels wrong the moment it forms.Even without proof, it doesn’t make sense. An Omega like him would never survive the pain of doing something that cruel. The act alone would tear him apart from the inside.And the evidence doesn’t match the story either.His mouth was clean. His teeth too. Not a trace of blood anywhere on his f

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ZARA Felix didn’t want to sleep. The stubborn strength in him kept his mind fighting it, even though his body had clearly reached its limit. The tension in his muscles said everything. He was exhausted, but he refused to give in.In the end, his body made the decision for him.Sleep crept over him slowly while I held him close. His breathing changed first. It grew deeper and steadier. The tightness in his shoulders loosened little by little, like a knot slowly untying.I felt the moment it happened.The moment his awareness slipped away.As soon as I knew he was truly asleep, I teleported us to the bedroom.The shift happened quietly and quickly. One moment we were standing where we had been before. The next moment we were beside the bed.Carefully, I lowered him onto the mattress. His body was heavy with exhaustion, but he didn’t stir. Not even when I pulled the blankets over him and adjusted the pillow beneath his head.Sleep had him completely.That worried me in its own way.Stil

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CALEB A loud ringing cuts through the quiet room.Damian must have set some kind of alarm on his phone. The sound keeps going. Over and over again. It doesn’t stop. And he isn’t even trying to turn it off.A groan slips out while a hand drags across tired eyes. Elbows press into the mattress as I push myself up slowly. The dark dorm room comes into view, but for a moment the sight feels wrong.This isn’t home.The mind expects something else. It expects to wake up in bed beside Zara. That has become normal lately. Waking up without her feels strange. The change takes a few seconds to settle in.Memory catches up soon after.Right. The dorm.The reason for the ringing becomes clear.Damian is stretched out on the twin bed near the door, snoring loudly like nothing in the world could bother him.Of course he hasn’t answered the phone.A glance toward the small clock across the room shows the time.Three fifteen in the morning.That’s definitely not an alarm.Someone is calling him.“Sh

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DAMIAN Leaving them alone the whole night was a mistake. That thought keeps returning, pressing harder with every step toward Blackwood Manor.Something is very wrong with Felix. The signs have been there for days. Maybe longer than that. Looking back now, there were moments that didn’t make sense at the time. Things that were easy to brush aside then but feel heavier now. A better answer should have been found by now. A real solution. Something that could stop the blackouts before they got worse.Instead, nothing was solved.And that weight ended up resting on Zara’s shoulders.That truth sits badly in my chest.Hands curl into tight fists while moving faster up the path.If anything had happened to either of them because a solution for Felix’s blackouts couldn’t be found, forgiveness would never come easily. Not for anyone. Least of all for myself.The thought alone makes my jaw tighten.That cannot happen again.Never again.They are my pack. Mine to protect. That responsibility

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ZARA Damian thinks something is wrong with me.He hasn’t said the words. Not once. But it was clear on his face while I explained everything that happened. The doubt was there. The confusion too.He kept quiet the whole time.After I finished, he pulled me into a hug. Strong arms. Tight for a moment. Then just… silence.Something sits behind that silence. Something he is choosing not to say.The hug loosens. I pull back a little and look up at him.Those dark blue eyes are studying me.There’s no way he truly believes Felix killed someone. That thought doesn’t make sense. Damian knows his Omega. He knows him just as well as I do.Felix would never do something like that.“Where’s the body?” he asks.Straight to the point.“It’s not far,” I say. “There should still be a scent trail you can follow. But it’s been… a while.” My chest rises slowly as the memory returns. “Felix was a mess when I brought him back here. Blood everywhere. When he woke up, he was panicking.”That part had take

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ZARA “If we follow their trail, they might catch our scent,” Damian says as the thought settles in his mind.His eyes move slowly across the forest floor and the trees around us, measuring the situation.“Can you cast something to stop that?” he asks after a moment. “It’s the only way we can check on them without starting a fight.”Thank Selene.He’s finally willing to do it my way.Now the only problem is that I’m not completely sure my way will work.“I can,” I admit after thinking it through. “But I need a little boost first. Give me a moment.”The closest tree stands beside me, thick and old, its bark dark and rough with age.My palm presses against it carefully.The moment my skin touches the bark, a faint tingling spreads through my fingers.The sensation moves slowly, like tiny sparks crawling under my skin.A quiet prayer forms in my mind as I reach deeper.Selene… please.Energy begins to move through the tree and into me.The magic rises from deep within the earth, flowing

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