NATHAN’S POV
I knew the moment I woke up, It wasn’t a sound…not movement, nor anything I could name. It was absence. My eyes snapped open, my body already reacting before my mind caught up, my hand reaching across the bed— Empty. Cold.
“Elodie.”
Her name left my lips before I even stood, already moving, already knowing something was wrong. The bond… I felt it..it wasn’t hers nor mine but his
His…Damon.
My jaw tightened as I stepped into the corridor, senses sharpening instantly, tracking the faint shift in the air, the disturbance that didn’t belong. He had called her and she had gone. Not forced. That thought settled like something dangerous. Chosen. I didn’t stop to think, didn’t hesitate. I moved. Fast.
The forest blurred as I followed the trail, every instinct locked onto one thi
