Chapter 26
“Tara, shall I go along and make sure the cell is fae proof?”
Rune’s voice in my head was barely audible. As if I was tuning in to a radio station using an old-timey antenna and hadn’t yet found the sweet spot.
But...I shouldn’t have been able to hear him at all. I flinched, and spun back on my heel to stare at the shifter who wasn’t a member of my pack.
He was staring right back at me, waiting for an answer. I couldn’t give him one, though, because I was stuck on the way words had made it from his head into mine.
My fingertips brushed across the scab on my neck. Rune had promised that wasn’t a mate bite and I certainly couldn’t afford to bond with my Consort. Not when I was the Whelan Alpha, our Bargain mandating that I eschew even the idea of a mate.
Which meant the whys
