Elena's POV
"I hope you drown!"
Dominic's curse was torn apart by the wind. I could barely hear it. Everything felt distant.
The wolfsbane raging inside me was a wildfire. The near-freezing pond water violently suppressed that fire, reducing it to mere embers.
The cost was cold.
Not just the skin-shivering cold, but a darkness that seemed to freeze the last connection between Lyra and me.
"Lyra?" I tried to call her in my mind.
Silence. Absolute silence.
No response, no whimpering.
My wolf felt like she had been ripped out of my body, leaving only an empty shell.
That emptiness terrified me more than the freezing water.
I gritted my teeth and crawled onto the bank. My fingers were stiff and frozen, unable to curl. I clumsily tried to pull my shredded clothes around me.
Everythi
