BOUND TO THE FORBIDDEN ALPHA PRINCE • BOOK II
False or not, she's my mate.
So why the hell is my chest still burning.
I pressed both hands harder against the desk, my knuckles paling beneath the strain.
The bond was alive.
The same bond I had her absence convincing myself was false, silent, broken beyond repair the second I lost her heartbeat somewhere inside that Summit chaos, burned through me now like it had simply been waiting, patient and starving, for an excuse to finally wake completely.
I could feel her. Her heartbeat had returned, steady and constant, pulsing somewhere close enough that some primitive, unreasoning part of me already knew exactly which direction to walk if I let my feet decide the answer.