Naya’s POVI couldn’t move, I mean, I could, physically, but my fucking legs had decided they weren’t going to listen. My chest felt so tight, my lungs heavy, and my heart was doing this wild, stuttering thing that made every breath feel like I was dragging it through water. The bond… the bond wasn’t just pulling away from Kade. It was dragging me like a chain toward the border, toward the trees, toward something that felt… alive, patient, and knowing.I swallowed hard, I tried again to meet Kade’s eyes, but every time I lifted my gaze, my stomach twisted, my hands went clammy, and the pull from the bond tugged harder, like it was dragging me toward something my brain didn’t want me to see. Something I couldn’t understand.Kade noticed it immediately. His eyes narrowed down, not with angry, not worried, not confused, not the Kade I had learned to read. This was deeper, it was Sharper, and Older.“Stay close to me,” he said, quiet but firm. The way he always said it when he meant it,
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