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"As long as he’s in there, he’s not in you. And he’s not in the Tree." "You don't understand," Ash said, pulling back just enough to look into her eyes. The grey of his pupils was shot through with tiny, golden flecks—the mark of the new bond. "He isn't just trapped. He’s... he’s feeding. He’s trying to use our connection to find a way back out. Every time we feel something for each other—love, anger, anything—he gets stronger." "Then we'll just have to be stronger than him," Rhea said, her jaw setting in that familiar, stubborn line that Ash loved.

Instead of Cole coming to get me, an avalanche arrived first. I ran. The icy wind knifed down my throat in greedy bursts. My lungs burned with every gasp. As time passed, all I could hear was the pounding of my own heartbeat. My numb legs moved on autopilot. Then, I stumbled and crashed to the ground. The roar behind me grew louder and louder. I watched helplessly as the wall of snow swallowed me whole. Right before I blacked out, I told myself that if I somehow survived this, I would be done with Cole. I wouldn't want him anymore.

Into an eight-year-old. Cove drops. Smoke pours from his nose. From his ears. His skin goes black. Veins gold. He looks at me. Tears real this time. “Hurts, Mother.” Then he screams. The black vines erupt. Not from the ground. From him. They shoot up. Through the fire. Through the smoke. And they grab Ash. She doesn’t scream. She laughs. “Brother’s hungry too!” Her hair catches. Real flame now. Not power. Her. She burns.

Actually. He stopped beside them. Zion looked at him. "Voss." "Vael." He looked at Ash. "How's the shoulder holding up?" Ash looked at him with those grey eyes that were doing several things he couldn't fully read. "Fine," Ash said. "The sequence puts pressure on the left joint if your form breaks down." "My form didn't break down." "I know." He'd been watching. He was aware that was information he shouldn't have. "Just checking."

A pressure that said *stay*. The forest went still. Our mate, Ashen said. He found us. I told her to shut up. His scent poured over me. Close enough that it blocked out everything else — pine, earth, cold air, all of it gone. Just him. Just that deep, impossible pull that had chased me through every turn and leap and desperate sprint through these woods. Ashen was sobbing inside my head. Begging me to submit, to tilt my chin up, to show him our throat and let the bond seal.

And then everything turned black. ________________________________________________

“You look like a dockside whore.” “Charming.” He collapsed into a leather armchair, boots thudding onto her prized mahogany desk. “Miss me at the ball?” Her reflection sharpened in the glass. “You humiliated Vera Blackthorn. Sabotaged our alliance. And for what? A half-breed who can’t even—” Asher’s growl vibrated the brandy decanter. “Finish that sentence. I’m curious how far you’ll dig your grave tonight.”

One of them dragged her hand across my chest and I tried not to cringe. "I got your message; it sounded pretty urgent," Asher got out lazily as man-spread on the seat he was on. "Speak up, I'm listening" "We have to do something, Asher. Don't you think it's time we go through with our plans? I have already intercepted the Blackwood a few times in a row now, and they have been unable to do anything except issue a threat. I sense they have grown weaker. We need to take them out now" I growled, the anger in my chest growing as I watched Asher make a show of drinking his shot.

“But peaceful doesn’t mean easy.” “No,” Ashen whispered. “It never has.” Back in his room, I laid him gently on the bed. Ashen gripped my sleeve immediately. “Don’t go far.” I sat beside him, threading our fingers together. “I wasn’t planning on it.” Ashen shut his eyes and exhaled. “Everything inside me is moving. Like three rivers trying to join the same lake.” I brushed hair from his forehead. “Does it hurt?” “No,” he said quietly. “Just… heavy. Like I’m holding something enormous. Something that wants to settle but doesn’t know how yet.”