Ronan's POV It hit like a sledgehammer to the chest, then a live wire shoved down my throat. One moment I was in Gideon’s study, staring at a map of the northern territories, the taste of his expensive whiskey ash in my mouth. The next, my world was white-hot, silent agony. The mate bond was a constant, aching presence since the day I met her. It wasn't a pull or a plea. It was a detonation. A psychic scream of such raw, shattering force that my knees buckled. My vision bleached to nothing. A roar tore from me, not of anger, but of pure, uncomprehending pain, as if my soul was being flayed. My bones ached, my skin prickled with the urgent, violent need to shift, to rend, to answer this catastrophic distress call in the only way my wolf knew how—with teeth and fury. The air crackled around me. A vase on Gideon’s desk shattered, victim to the uncontrolled wave of energy that pulsed from me. “Ronan!” Finn’s voice, sharp with alarm, cut through the static. Strong hands grabbed me fr
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