—at last, and forevermore.

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"REEEVE!!!!!" Shi's voice, now strained and desperate, seized her husband's face with both trembling hands, her eyes pleading for him to break free from the clutches of his consuming wrath.

Reeve snapped out of his momentary lapse into darkness, tears streaming down his face as he gazed at his wife in his half-beast form, twisted by his own anger.

Shi's touch, gentle yet firm, brought Reeve back from the brink of his rage-induced trance. As her hands cradled his face, her gaze pierced through the storm raging within him, anchoring him to the present moment.