MALAKAI

The moment her weight hit my chest, the world didn’t just shift. It shattered.

I had spent my entire life honing my senses to the point of lethal precision. I could track a scent through a rainstorm; I could hear a heart skip a beat from fifty yards away. But nothing in my years of war or leadership had prepared me for the physical violence of the mate bond snapping into place.

It wasn't a gentle tug or a fated whisper. It was a lightning strike.

As my arms instinctively wrapped around the broken woman to stop her from hitting the dirt, a golden heat erupted at the point...