The bond snapped back into place like a rubber band stretched to its breaking point.
One second, there was nothing—an empty space in my soul where she should have been. The next, a tidal wave of panic slammed into me, so violent it stole the air from my lungs. It wasn’t my panic. It was hers. Raw, animal, and drowning in a wrongness that felt like sweet, creeping poison.
Before I could think, I was moving. I shoved Gavin aside, wrenched open
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