KATHERINE POV Hator had retreated into the back of my consciousness. I couldn’t reach her. Normally, I’d blame exhaustion. Goddess knew we had been through enough in the last few days to warrant a full system shutdown. But this didn’t feel like a crash. It felt like evasion. She was hiding from me. Because she knew I had questions. And she didn’t want to give me answers. Such a cowardly move. She could shroud herself in silence all she wanted, but she couldn’t hide the truth from the others. My mates were looking at me differently. Cautiously. Like they were trying to gauge if I was still the same girl they had mated, or something... more. Something dangerous. Because what I did—what Hator did—wasn’t supposed to be possible. We weren’t supposed to be that powerful. The ride in the

