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The darkness of a ship’s hold is not an absence of light — it is a substance. Thick, viscous, like black oil seeping through rotting planks and settling into lungs and bones. Derek Hale lies chained in that darkness, his body weakened by wolfsbane, his senses flayed raw by the relentless presence of the sea — an element forbidden to werewolves, invasive and maddening.
The hunters who captured him bring a new prize aboard.
Something pale and wrong.
Something with rubies set into its eyes and a cold that reeks of the abyss.They call it a trophy.
They call it a thing.For Derek, it becomes a reason to survive.
In a filthy cell, between injections of poison and the distorted roar of the ocean pressing in from all sides, a desperate pact is forged between a land-bound alpha and a creature born of the depths. A fragile, wordless alliance shaped by pain, proximity, and the shared instinct to endure.
Because the true danger is not the captivity.
It is not the hunters.It is what they begin to become when survival demands trust.
And it is the impossible secret the ocean has dragged to the surface — wrapped in rags, breathing softly, and destined to change everything.