I went deadly still.
I looked up to find my brothers staring at me. Raiden’s jaw was tight, Ace had stopped his pacing, and Nate had lowered his tablet, his eyes wide with a mixture of horror and awe.
They felt it too. The resonance wasn’t just in me. It was in the room. It was in us.
“What was that?” Ace whispered, his voice trembling.
“Resonance,” Nate breathed. “Biological and metaphysical lock.”
“No,” Raiden said, his voice rough as he looked from me to the woman in the bed. “That’s not resonance. That’s…that’s the mate bond.”
The word hung in the air like a blade.
Mate.
It was a fairytale. A weakness. Cambions didn’t have mates. We had conquests, we had enemies. We didn’t have souls to bind to another. But looking at her, feeling the absolute, terrifying rightness of her hand
