The world outside felt strangely muted, as though the shadows themselves were holding their breath. The house was quiet, a deceptive kind of quiet that belonged to nights where every thought pressed heavier than usual, where every glance lingered a moment too long.I should have been exhausted. Training sessions with the pack had left my muscles humming, sore but stronger, and my mind spinning with all the unspoken rules I was still learning. But instead of sleeping, I found myself pacing my room, restless, my skin prickling with an energy that felt both foreign and frighteningly familiar.It was the mate-bond—I was beginning to recognize the edges of it now. That invisible thread tugging me forward whenever Jaxon was near. It was the way my instincts sharpened in his presence, the way my heartbeat shifted rhythm to match his, as if my body had learned to dance to his pulse instead of my own.And it was unbearable.A knock sounded on my door, soft but commanding. Only one person knock
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