Leander

I had known several minutes into the forest that we were in the right location because as soon as we were close enough, Hycinth’s pain had exploded into my consciousness. It was like I’d crossed an invisible barrier. One moment, nothing, and then the next, agony like I’d never known crashed through the barrier of our mind link, the one-way door my bite had established. Anguished flames of hurt and trauma licked my insides, tormenting me with their intensity.

I’d stumbled under the onslaught, not entirely sure I was going to survive, as it consumed every part of me. But a more severe emotion, the irrevocable force that bound....