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What She Decided

Author: Alessia Frost
last update publish date: 2026-07-28 19:27:34

POV: Ryder

The bond carried everything.

Ryder sat on his cot with his palm flat against the shared wall and felt Sierra read the letter. Felt the moment the words reached her. Felt what arrived with them, not emotion in the simple sense but something more structural, the specific sensation of a person receiving information that confirmed a decision already made and removing the last resistance to acting on it.

She set the letter down. He felt that too.

Her palm found the wall from her side, and
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