Roisin The nightmares hadn’t stopped. I woke up with a start, my body drenched in sweat, my heart pounding against my ribcage. It was always the same—Azmariah, the blood, the haunting image of her reaching out to me, calling my name with her lifeless eyes. No matter what I did, I couldn’t escape it. I thought that rejecting Visaris would bring an end to all this. I thought the nightmares were a result of the bond, that maybe the connection between us was dragging me into something dark, something I shouldn’t have been a part of. But even then, after the rejection… they persisted. With a sigh, I pushed myself up from the bed and ran a hand through my tangled hair. Jaeni stirred in the back of my mind, offering a soft grunt of understanding, but even she was puzzled by the relentless dre

