Instinct Unleashed -chapter 9- By Kind Nightmares < RECOMMENDED >

Kael didn't turn. He already knew the scent—smoke, old leather, and the metallic tang of suppressed rage. Elias. The alpha who had raised him, who had taught him that instinct without discipline was just chaos with teeth.

Chapter 9 ends not with a howl, but with the absence of one. Because the loudest roars are the ones that never leave the chest. And Kael had finally stopped fighting the quiet.

The pack had scattered three nights ago after the incident at the silos. He could still hear the wet snap of Tobias's shoulder dislocating, still see the way Lena had looked at him—not with fear, but with the hollow recognition of someone watching a friend drown in slow motion. She had whispered, "You're still in there, Kael. Fight it." Instinct Unleashed -Chapter 9- By Kind Nightmares

"Lena thinks I can save you," Elias continued. "Tobias wants to put you down. The others are too afraid to speak their minds. And you? What do you want, Kael?"

The moon hung low and fractured, as if something had tried to swallow it and thought better of it. Rain fell not in droplets but in sheets—grey, relentless, the kind of rain that washed away footprints and memories in equal measure. Kael didn't turn

Behind him, a twig snapped.

The rain had started to fall harder, slicking Kael's hair to his forehead, dripping into his eyes. He blinked slowly. When he looked up, his irises caught the fractured moonlight—amber now, where they had been brown. The alpha who had raised him, who had

Predator , the eye seemed to say. Not monster. Not yet.