I turned toward the school building immediately, my body already moving, already tracking. But something felt off. It wasn’t just the heat in her scent..it was the way it danced with something else. A thread of male energy. Not mine. Not familiar. Wrong. The anger started deep in my gut and rose like smoke up my spine. I tried to mindlink her immediately. Kitten, I said through the link. Where are you? Can you hear me? Are you okay? Nothing. Lyra, I tried again, pushing harder, narrowing my focus, forcing my energy toward her. Talk to me. Now. Still nothing. I stopped just outside the front entrance, my hand clenching into a fist around the sleeve of her sweater. No response. No connection. Just a wall of silence where her mind should’ve been. Either she was blocking me, unconscious, or too overwhelmed to hear. None of those options sat well with me. My legs were already moving before I realized it, storming through the double doors of the school building, eyes scan
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