TENNA.
Red eyes everywhere. So many I stopped trying to count them.
Hands grabbed me from behind. Ice cold. Too strong. I opened my mouth to scream and tasted copper.
My blood.
A voice whispered against my ear. "Tell them you're weak. Say you reject the bond."
"f**k you."
Pain burst across the back of my skull and the world tilted. I was falling through endless nothing while those red eyes followed me down.
Laughing.
"Tenna."
The voice pulled me out.
Warm. Familiar.
Real.
"Come on, sweetheart. Come back. You're safe."
My eyes snapped open.
Hospital room. White walls. Monitors beeping steady. The smell of antiseptic.
Not the garden. Not the dark.
I was safe.
"There you are," Rowan said. Relief softened his face. "Just a nightmare. You're here with me now."
He sat beside t
