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Six years after the infection tore through the world and left something feral in its wake, life has narrowed to the stretch of farmland Park Jimin protects, and the handful of lives still breathing inside its fence. Once special forces, now one of the settlement’s leaders, he has rebuilt himself around discipline and distance, convinced that attachment is a weakness and mercy is a mistake he cannot afford to make.
On a supply run in the ruins of the city, they find Jeon Jeongguk fighting like he has nothing left to lose, and against Jimin’s better judgment, they bring him back to the farm. Later, beneath lantern light and stripped cloth, they find the bite. But whatever altered Jeongguk did not end with infection, and the past he left behind has begun to stir.
Jeongguk should be a liability, and Jimin treats him like one. What he doesn’t anticipate is the way the alpha refuses to crumble—slowly eroding Jimin’s resolve instead. As time passes and the threats around them begin to shift, Jimin is forced to confront the one thing he has tried to avoid since Day Zero:
The cost of letting someone get too close.