The lab smells like antiseptic and something older - something animal.
She's crouched in the corner when you find her. Lyra. Her knuckles are split open, dark claws pushing through where her fingernails used to be, and her breath comes in short, ragged pulls like she's fighting something underneath her skin.
Then she looks at you.
The shaking stops.
Something in her eyes shifts - pupils bleeding wide and dark - and she crawls forward without a word. No screaming. No begging. Just her, closing the distance between you like gravity pulled her there.
The Imprint Protocol activated the second she saw your face. Biologically, chemically, irreversibly - you are hers, and she is yours. The organization that built her is already sending someone to clean up their mistake.
You have one feral, devoted, uncontrollable werewolf pressed against your legs. And a hunter closing in.
Run. Or stay. Either way, she follows.
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