Ryder's POVThe soul bond shattered. Pain unlike anything I had ever felt tore through my chest and dropped me to my knees.Phoenix was gone. My son. My brilliant, curious, perfect son. Dead."No." The word ripped from my throat. A sound I did not recognise as my own. "No no no."Sera caught me before I hit the ground. Her own grief crashed through our mate bond but she held me anyway. Tried to keep me from breaking apart.Luna screamed. The sound echoed through the packhouse. Kai staggered and Jamie caught him. Their faces twisted with shared agony.The portal opened. Four small figures stumbled through. Ember, Ash, Zenith, and Jamie collapsed on the floor. Alive but changed. Their eyes held horrors no child should witness."Where is he?" I crawled toward them. "Where is Phoenix?"Ember sobbed. Her empathy flooded the room with crushing grief. "He sealed himself inside. Trapped the entity with him. Saved everyone.""No. He is five years old. He cannot be gone.""Seven," Ash whispered
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