MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Eighty Three
He said them slowly.
One at a time.
No hesitation.
No softening.
Just the names.
Each one complete before the next one.
The room was completely still.
Mara stood at the window.
She looked at the square below.
At the people listening.
At the phones going quiet in their hands.
At the specific stillness of a crowd that has stopped doing everything else to hear one thing.
She felt the second phase move through her chest.
Steady.
Continuous.
She felt the bond.
Both men.
Caius against the wall.
Zane beside the door.
Both of them holding the room.
She held the files against her chest.
She listened.
She counted.
Not out loud.
In the bond.
In her wolf.
Each name landing.
Each name real.
Each name a person who had existed and
