Drake And Conflict 2
ADAM
Drake’s words landed like a strike to the chest.
“Choose.”
He actually said it.
The air around him thickened, dark and suffocating. Shadows curled around his feet like smoke, tendrils of blackness rising off his skin as if the night itself had come alive through him. His eyes once the color of stormy skies were now voids, gleaming with something ancient, something wrong.
This wasn’t grief.
This wasn’t anger.
This was corruption.
I took a cautious step back, my pulse pounding like war drums in my ears. Every instinct screamed that I was staring into the jaws of something not entirely Drake anymore.
I glanced at Emmanuelle. She stood frozen near the wall, hands trembling, eyes wide. She was afraid of him, of me, of what this moment could become. I could hear her heartbeat. Rapid. Erratic.
I looked back at Drake.
His claws were already out, his muscles tensed like a predator about to strike. But it wasn’t just his body his wolf had changed. The creature standing before me was cloaked in darkness. He wasn’t white-furred and proud like before. He was shadow-wrapped, dangerous, and trembling with something just barely contained.
I swallowed hard.
“Drake…” I began, my voice low, steady despite the storm inside me. “You’re my brother. You always will be.”
His jaw tightened, but he didn’t speak.
“You pulled me out of the fire once. You taught me how to shift, how to fight. You’re the reason I survived half of what we went through. I haven’t forgotten that.”
Still, he didn’t move.
“But this,” I said, gesturing at the swirling dark energy around him, “this isn’t you. Not fully. I don’t know what’s gotten into you, but I can feel it twisting you up inside. It’s poisoning everything good in you.”
His lips curled into something between a sneer and a snarl. His eyes glowed brighter feral, unstable.
And still I didn’t choose.
Because choosing would mean the end of something.
And if I chose wrong…
We might not all walk out of that room alive.
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