KAI’S POV
The moment Zara’s scream ripped through the mind-link, I knew something was wrong.
Not physically wrong cosmically wrong.
Like the fabric of whatever threads held, the two of us together had been slashed open with a blade I couldn’t see.
I jolted upright in my room, chest heaving, the metallic taste of deja vu burning the back of my throat. For a second, I saw her strapped to that obsidian chair, needles draining her soul, her eyes going dim as I stood there, powerless.
Except… that wasn’t real. Or was it?
My breathing staggered.
Ever since I’d come back from Voss’s office, my mind had been… off. Like someone had rewired my memories and forgotten to stitch some of them together. I could not remember parts of the day. The whole chunks were empty.
But Zara’s panic?
That wa
