The shift ended like a breath ripped from my lungs.
One moment, there was nothing but tearing light and fractured time—and the next, my feet hit solid ground, and my knees buckled beneath me.
Wooden floor.
Warm air.
The faint scent of pine smoke and old magic.
I made it!
I knew it before my mind could catch up.
Kael’s mother’s house.
My heart thundered so loud it drowned out everything else.
I had made it.
I was back in Polaris.
A hand steadied me.
Jax.
Shit...
He was still there, breathing hard, eyes scanning the room like he expected the walls to turn on him. The fact that he’d come through with me at all felt unreal—space-and-time shifting was never meant for more than one soul at a time.
The kitchen door slammed open.
“VEYRA?”
Orion’s voice cracked like a whip.
Boo
