Chapter 151

Bellamy was completely speechless. She came to realize that Derek wasn't just a brooding presence-he was also kind of a nag. He could switch from ice-cold to full-on helicopter mom without warning. And here was the kicker: he kept dropping subtle and not-so-subtle hints that Fraser's alternate personality-Wesley-was way more dangerous than he let on. What she'd seen so far? Just the tip of the iceberg. Derek basically told her to tread carefully around him. In the month Bellamy spent detoxing and resting up, Wesley hadn't shown up once. Which... struck her as odd. Before, she'd thought his appearances had some kind of pattern-like, maybe every two weeks or so. But now? It just felt random. When Derek found out what she was thinking, he gave her this whole "I'm-an-expert-on-this" speech and said, "He exists as a form of consciousness. The stronger that consciousness, the more often he shows up. Back when you hadn't been rescued, his need to save you was overwhelming-so his appearances w