Chapter 116: Elara's POV "Faster," I say, though I'm already running as fast as my legs will carry me, the search party spreading out around me through the dark forest, pack security moving with the coordinated precision Ryker built into this territory months ago.Something is happening in my chest that has nothing to do with fear.Fear I understand. Fear has lived in me constantly since Serena's phone call sharp, immediate, the specific animal terror of a mother whose child is somewhere she cannot see. This is different. This is older, deeper, something that feels like it's been sleeping under my skin for twenty-four years and has just, suddenly, violently, woken up.The bond is roaring.Not the low warm hum I've grown accustomed to over the last several months. Something enormous, something that presses against the inside of my ribs like it's trying to break out through bone, and underneath it underneath the bond, deeper than the bond, in a place I've never once felt anything bef
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