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"No! Not you too!" My hand flew to my mouth, as if I could shove the words back in. "How? When?" My voice came out clipped, sharp.
Selene’s gaze flickered downward to the vinyl floor. "It wasn’t the same as what happened to you," she murmured. "I didn’t realize it immediately when I got my wolf on my eighteenth birthday, but later." She shifted uncomfortably, her weight shifting from foot to foot.
"Later?" I echoed, dread curling around my ribs.
She inhaled shakily. "I started noticing little signs. A lack of interest in romance, an eerie silence where the mate bond should be. At first, it was vague—a haze—but slowly, it became completely hollow." Her throat bobbed as she swallowed hard. "A vast, endless nothing."
I knew exactly what she was describing. I had felt it too, th
