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Chapter 103 – What Won’t Be Taken

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Eli

The world has gone very quiet inside my skull. Snow hisses somewhere to my left where a fire arrow is eating an old fir. Somebody cries out. A blade clatters. None of it matters.

All I can hear is the absence where his breathing should be.

“Come back,” I whisper, and it scrapes my throat raw. “You can’t leave me, Ronan. You’re too stubborn to die.”

Nothing.

The bond is a frayed wire under my ribs, sparking once, then going dark. I press harder on the hole in his chest, as if I can bully his heart into remembering its job.

Hot blood pushes between my fingers anyway, slicking my wrists, spreading through the lines of my palms until they’re a map of him. My hands shake so hard I have to lock my elbows to keep pressure where it matters.

He looks wrong. Too pale around the mouth. Too still in the shoulders. Ronan always seems to be in motion, even when he’s resting.

I’m desperately searching for the faint twitch at his jaw that broadcasts he’s about to start a fight, the way his fing
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