*Chapter 38:
ALESSIA
I didn’t sleep after the whisper, and I didn’t try to pretend I could, because the word Veyl had settled into the room like it belonged there and every time I closed my eyes I could feel it pressing against the inside of my skull as if it was testing how much of me it could reach before I woke up again.
The bond flared twice in the hour that followed, sharp and urgent, and I knew without having to open my door that the triplets had felt it too, because Azriel’s hand was on my doorframe before I even stood up, and when I opened it he didn’t ask if I was alright, he just stepped inside like we’d both already decided that being alone wasn’t an option anymore. Asher and Axel came right behind him, and for a while none of us spoke, because saying it out loud would ha
