Brax POVThe water locked me in, and I frowned, my shadows thrashing around me. I tried to kick off the lake bed, but the water wouldn’t let me go. It held me in place, and my eyes flung open, trying to see a way out, but instead, I saw something that had me collapsing into the sand.Marabella.She was hanging against a wall, bloodied and bruised, her head hung, her arms out, shackled in silver clasps with the same magic binding seal on them.I tried to reach out in front of me, to the vision, shimmering in the water, but it swiped it away. I scrambled for it, making my lungs ache, my eyes burn, but I didn’t care. I needed more.The lake gave it to me.Marabella appeared again, my shadows crowding the image as they tried to get to her too.She was in the same place, on the same wall, in the same abused state, and I tried not to scream. But the alpha in me, the mate in me, was already there, screaming, clawing at my insides, trying to break free.But the lake kept us both there, starin
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