POV: Liam
It hit me like a blade between the ribs.
One moment I was standing at the edge of the safe house property talking to Jake through the fence line, mid-sentence about the Hollow Court’s perimeter movements. The next moment something tore through the bond with a force that knocked the sentence clean out of my head and replaced everything with one single overriding signal.
Maya,Danger.. Now. Jake said something. I did not hear it. I was already running.
I shifted at the tree line because human legs were not going to be fast enough and nothing about the next four minutes had room for slow. The shift happened in under two seconds, faster than it had ever happened before, my wolf taking over with the focused efficiency of an animal that had exactly one objective and zero patience
