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Ch. 118 Emptiness

Author: Cara Anderson
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-05 10:47:44
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I wake to emptiness where Finley should be, the physical space beside me cold despite her having left bed only minutes ago. Through our bond, I sense her in the bathroom, the emotional walls she's constructed so thick that only fragments of her true feelings leak through—guilt, exhaustion, and beneath it all, a bone-deep conviction that she doesn't deserve the love Liam and I keep offering.

"She's pulling further away," Liam murmurs from his position on the other side of the bed, his voice heavy with concern and frustration. "I can feel it through the bond. Every day, she builds those walls higher."

I nod, Summit stirring restlessly beneath my skin as he responds to our mate's distress. The enhanced connection that should be bringing us closer together has become a source of constant worry instead—feeling her pain without being able to alleviate it, sensing her withdrawal without being able to breach the barriers she's erected around her heart.

"Five days," I say quietly, running
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