ELENA'S POV
The bond pulled the moment he crossed the threshold. I pressed it back before he finished walking through the door.
He looked like he'd driven through the night again.
Dark circles. Shirt open at the collar. His silver eyes found mine immediately across the main hall the way they always did now, like the bond had given them a direction they couldn't unlearn.
His eyes were gold before he finished crossing the threshold.
He stopped when he saw my expression.
"You're angry," he said.
"You came here without being asked," I said. "After I told Kyle not yet."
"I know what not yet means," he said. "It means you're planning to go anyway and you wanted time to plan it without me in the room arguing against it." He held my gaze. "So I removed the time."
"That's not your decisio
