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th. My chest ached as if something had torn through me, yet beneath the pain there was a

ecked eyes burning into mine like molten metal. The air between us pulsed with something a

oice low, controlled, but there was a

throat tightened. "I didn't-"

arp and final. "You don't get to feel this. It'

inside me. My blood pulsed in rhythm with him, my wolf whined in frustration. This wasn't just

I admitted, trembling. "W

istance could erase the invisible tether now linking us

d, dragging at me like a chain I couldn't break. I wanted to run, wanted to escape, yet

My wolf snarled inside, frustrated at its inability to ac

e racing pulse beneath my skin. "Stop it," he growled, voice barely above

I whispered, voice breaking. "W

e skyline could explain what neither of us understood. I thought I heard him b

to himself than to me. "I re

spot where the bond had pulsed strongest. That small motion hit me lik

nking about him, feeling the echo of his presence in my veins. My wolf

I whispered, my voice trembling.

et the gold in his eyes betrayed the truth. Something had shifted. Something

r of us could control. My heart hammered, my blood screamed, and de

tain: I had stepped into a world I couldn't escape,