Chapter 2
Mischa couldn’t breathe.
Well, she could, but her lungs were burning, and her heart was pumping like mad. Her stomach was in an agitated state of churning while feeling like a million butterflies had taken root there. Her gaze was glued where it shouldn’t be glued, and her feet wouldn’t move.
Until he took a step toward her, then she remembered how to walk.
Even then, she couldn’t move far away. She couldn’t.
He’d called her mate.
Was that why she had those odd reactions to him? Was that why she couldn’t leave this place no matter how hard she tried?
Was he what connected her to this place?
The thought terrified her.
She knew about Shifters. During the War, huge battalions of them had been based on the Eastern Front. Some of them had been in the town nearest her village.
