Blake P.O.V.The sound that isn’t a sound as it slams into my chest. It hits hard, just under the breastbone, right at the spot that’s been sore for days. Athena startles in my arms and then reaches small hands toward the ceiling, eyes going wide, pupils blown. Caspian, in Nicholas’s lap, does the same, tiny mouth an O. Tara, halfway between a giggle and a bite of cracker, goes still. She shifts her head that way and this, before staring straight ahead without seeing anything in particular. Oloron reacts instinctively, reaching for his daughter, but she doesn't notice him. He frowns, his eyes going from his work with the necklaces to her. Then he decides to shift position, working on the protection beside her instead of across from her. “Alpha?” Neptune half-rises in the chair. Elliott is already moving, because of course he is.“I felt it,” I say, voice rough from lack of sleep and too much crying in the night. Nicholas is on his feet, chair snarling across the floor, one hand brace
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