Instinct Unleashed -chapter 9- By | Kind Nightmares

But fighting implied a choice. And choices required a self to make them.

He stepped into the clearing. The grass flattened beneath his weight as though bowing. In the center lay the carcass of a stag—not killed, but undone . Ribs splayed open like the pages of a forbidden book, organs arranged in a pattern that felt almost ritualistic. His mouth watered. He hated that it watered. He knelt, fingers hovering over the warm ruin, and for a moment, he saw himself reflected in the black pool of the animal's unblinking eye. Instinct Unleashed -Chapter 9- By Kind Nightmares

Elias took a step back. For the first time in thirty years, the alpha smelled afraid. But fighting implied a choice