Zane’s POV
The air didn’t move and for a split second, I was back. Back that day when everything had changed. When my life had been shattered into a million pieces…
My mind went back to that day. Time had slowed as I felt her pain through our mate bond. I’d spun to find her--- my heart dropping at the sight that awaited me.
The black wolf…
His jaws around her throat. And just as his eyes locked with mine – an evil smirk forming on his wolf’s features – he closed it. Crimson blood stained the air. Her gasp shattered me, and then her eyes dulled, the light of my world extinguished.
The mate bond snapped like a taut string cut by a sharp blade. The pain was more excruciating than anything I’d ever known. It was like losing half of my soul. Like having my still-beating heart ripped out of
