Fate Bound to the Monsters by Texa Volt

I escaped the Syndicate’s breeding program.
I should be free.
Instead, I’m running through the Cascades with six dangerous monsters, a target on my back, and bonds that keep getting stronger no matter how hard I try to pretend my life hasn’t completely changed.

Thaw — the alpha who would burn the world to keep me safe.

Crull — the orc whose silence means he is choosing his words carefully, and his words are always for me.
Harek — the goblin-fae stabilizer who reads my body before I have named what is happening to it.
Dean and Daron — twin wolves who look at me like they have already made their choice.
And Fen — the demon the Syndicate broke so completely no one believed he could come back. Until he saw what I was becoming.

The Syndicate isn’t finished with me.

They’ve built a forty-year breeding program around women like me. Women with the biology to carry hybrid bloodlines. Women they hunt, cage, and harvest cellular material from without consent.

Now we have discovered something worse.

There are others.

If we run, they all stay caged.
If we fight, we lose each other.

And something is happening to my body that nobody — not the Syndicate, not my pack, not even me — has language for yet. Horns are coming up on the top of my head. My voice is putting armed men on their knees. My biology is reading itself across distance.

I am not what they made.
I am what I am becoming.
And the Syndicate wants me home.
They are going to find out it does not work that way.