Sienna’s scream tears through the bond. Kieran!
I strain against the restraints, muscles tearing. Blood wells under the silver. Owen howls inside my skull, but the drugs hold him locked. Through the haze, I see them dragging Sienna back, Callum ripped from her arms. My son’s golden sparks flicker weakly as an agent fits a suppression collar around his tiny neck.
No.
The mate bond fractures at the edges. I feel her terror, her fury, her desperate reach toward our child. Elias stands over me, syringe in hand, that clinical smile fixed in place.
“Begin recording,” he orders. “Alpha specimen dissection, Phase One. Mate bond severance in real time.”
The scalpel lowers toward my chest.
Then the world explodes.
A thunderous crash shakes the entire facility. The far wall detonates inward in
