LUCIEN
The moment it happened, I felt it through the mate bond—a swift, wrenching sensation that ripped through me, feeling as if it had sliced open my chest for my heart to tumble onto the ground. One moment, Lena was there, her spirit burning bright in my mind. Then the next, she was moving away at an impossibly fast clip, experience her terror and confusion flooding me through the connection.
“No!” I hissed as my head jerked to where she’d been standing between the twins. “No, no, no!” But she wasn’t standing there anymore. The space she had just been occupying was vacant, and I could see Kai and Riven both recovering from impact, coiling rage and delirium illuminating their features as they searched for their mate. Selene was still trapped but I could no longer focus on her, did not
