Helix Biotech's cold genius Cora is assigned Silas Frost, an S-rank black panther beastkin broken by 8 years of electroshock mind control. Files call him a bloodthirsty killer—yet she finds only an empty, numb shell without fangs or claws. She vows to heal and release him into the wild. But the silent predator slowly surrenders his whole heart. When she tries to send him away, he chases her car, fangs bloodied, begging not to be abandoned. Now she must finish his rewilding—yet cannot let go of t
