She opened the wrong door. Now he's awake—and she's the only one he'll obey.
In a sealed underground lab, Senna Jacobs was just supposed to assess the damage. The breeding wing was decommissioned. The protocols inactive. The hybrid—terminated.
She was wrong.
Vix remembers her scent. Her neural signature. The way her voice once activated his most dangerous programming.
Now the chamber is locked, the lights are red, and the floors have begun to slick.
As she tries to escape, she realizes the hybrid doesn't want to hurt her. He wants to calibrate her. And Senna's body is reacting to the embedded code she thought was erased.
He wants a bond. A ritual. A response only she can give.
One command activated him. Another might save her. But the next could ruin her forever.
