VINCENT’S POVThe pain dragged my legs to the floor, and somehow I found myself on my knees. Everyone around me shifted, fear filling the entire room. The sound rang deep in my ears. It felt like my brain was being drilled. For a second, my vision was blurry, and I saw darkness waltz past me. The feeling was familiar. I didn’t expect them to know, but this is almost exactly the way it happened before. Only that this time, someone triggered it. I held myself on the floor for some time, fighting the voices that sang in my head. Even Cassian came to my aid. Him, alongside a few other council members whom I just finished having a meeting with. The sound stopped as suddenly as it began. Like a blade pulled out of my skull.Silence settled into the room, heavy and suffocating. The ringing faded, the invisible pressure loosening its grip on my mind. I stayed on my knees a few seconds longer, steadying my breath, forcing my vision to clear.“Alpha Vincent…”“I’m fine,” I muttered before th
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