Chapter 23
The Bond Awakens Hailey The moment Rider catches me, the world fractures. Not breaks. Expands. Pain tears through my body so violently that I cannot even scream. It rips through bone and blood and nerve endings like lightning splitting open the sky itself. My back arches instinctively against him as silver light erupts beneath my skin, brighter now, no longer flickering but blazing. The cabin shakes. Wood creaks violently around us. The windows explode outward in a shower of glass. And inside my mind something awakens. A howl tears through me. Not from outside. From inside. Ancient. Powerful. Female. Mine. The sound echoes through every part of me, filling spaces that have been empty my entire life. The hollow ache I carried for yearsthe loneliness, the silence, the const
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