Rey shrugged.
“Just tell me,” Brendan snarled. A small puff of his shadow magic spiralled off his shoulder.
Reynard watched the tiny smoky cloud and calmly fanned it away as it flew closer. “Relax,” he sighed. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair. “I felt your concern for Suki through the bond. I could feel how desperate you were to ask her if she was okay, and to have a moment alone with her where you could just be yourself, because, even though we’re both bonded to her, you’re only willing to let your walls down to her and only her. And you were desperate to drop your walls in that moment.”
Brendan’s eyes flickered wider. “How… How the hell were you able to feel all that?” he asked in a weak whisper.
A shrug. “Maybe with our connection to Suki being weaker at the moment,
