Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother
I focused on it before I could focus on anything else, using it as an anchor while the room reassembled itself around me.
Draven. He was sitting beside me, his worried gaze fixed on me as he tried to calm me down, his brows drawn together in concern.
I tried to speak, but the only thing I could manage was:
“The test—”
Then I saw the table.
The crystal orb was gone. In its place was a scatter of pale fragments across the stone floor—some large, most small, the outermost pieces having traveled a surprising distance.
It hadn't just simply broken, It had exploded outward from the center, with the particular violence of something that had contained too much and could not contain it any longer.