DANTE’S POV
The bond felt wrong, not broken, not severed. Just… stretched. Thinned. Like a thread pulled too far without snapping. This was just something that I never expected. I never thought that her absence would affect the bond in this way, I mean its not like we were getting along well before she left me but it hadn't been this bad either.
I stood alone in my office long after Selene left, the silence pressing in on me from every direction. The room still smelled faintly of her wildflowers and rain but it was fading faster than it should have. That alone was enough to set my wolf on edge.
Distance always weakened a bond. That was expected.
But this?
This felt deliberate.
I pressed a hand to my chest, jaw tightening as a dull ache pulsed beneath my ribs. Not pain — absence. Like
