I got up and went to the door to make sure everything was in order and to determine what was wrong with her voice.

- Alya, are you all right? I asked, hearing the water run.

“Now, I’m already leaving,” she told me, and the sound of the water subsided. I walked back, some feeling still gnawing at me. The anxiety did not go away, and I let go of the force, directed it to my mate.

I felt pain and panic, and something else that crashed into my consciousness, deafening with its pain. Jumping up from his chair, he knocked on the door, asking me to let him in....