The Fated Series
It reached.
Cold ran up my arm like a fuse lit backward. My fingers went numb, then my wrist, then the white cord there burned so hot I thought it might brand the bone. The Mirror’s night rolled over my hand, trying to take the thread itself—trying to eat the knot, to swallow the symbol of us so it could spit me back out unmoored.
“No,” I said, not loud but large, and shoved my burning wrist into Tristan’s palm. He didn’t hesitate. He wrapped his hand over the cord and bared his teeth at a god.