The Alpha’s Sanctuary: His Forbidden Mate
She looked up at me and her eyes were the same and also not the same, the thread fully visible in them now, present in a way it had not been before, like something that had been behind glass was now simply in the room.
"I told you to come back," she said.
"I came back," I said.
"I felt you get hit," she said. Her voice was completely even and her hands were not.
"I am fine," I said.
"I know you are fine," she said. "I felt that too. I am talking about the moment before fine. I am talking about the three seconds before fine when the bond went tight and I could not see what was happening."
I reached her and stopped in front of her and looked at her face properly. Tired. The older light is stil