ADINNA’S POV
The air shifts, thick and electric, almost alive.
One moment, everything around me was still, and the next, sound and color burst back into life, as if someone just pressed play on the world.
I blink, dazed, trying to make sense of what just happened. The music pounds again, lights flash, laughter echoes around the ballroom, but it all feels wrong and distant as if I’m watching it through glass.
For a moment, I think I imagined the stillness, silence, strange flickering of light, and the voice that whispered mate. But they are right in front of me.
Hunter, Jace, Salem, and Dean.
They stand around me, forming a loose circle that feels anything but casual. My chest tightens. They’re too close, too quiet, and too focused.
Their eyes aren’t normal. Not right now. There’s a
