Darina, after healing Jamie, went slowly to her study, her hands trembling. Her mate she once knew, the one she had trusted and loved with every part of her heart, was gone. What sat in his place now was a stranger, and she didn’t know how to deal with him, didn’t know how to fight something she couldn’t see or touch.She rested her palm against her stomach, clinging to that small spark of life inside her. She needed to keep her pup safe—no matter what.“Talk to him. Try to make him open up to you,” Coral urged softly, worrying in her voice. “Something is wrong with him.”Darina’s lips trembled. “But what if… what if this darkness was always there inside him, and now he’s just letting it out?” she whispered, horrified by her own thought, her chest tightening as if the words themselves were poison.“There is darkness in all of us,” Coral answered, shaking her head. “But this… this is different. I can’t reach Blake anymore, and I’m sc
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