The world seemed to stop.
The roar wasn’t just a sound.
It was a shudder.
A vibration that ran across our skin, through our bones, into our blood.
We all froze, if only for an instant.
Zack, Sage, Tara, Nicole, Kael, Lean, even me.
Even our enemies.
Something powerful had just entered the scene.
My breath caught when I saw him.
At the far end of the warehouse, the shadows parted as if obeying an invisible command.
The warriors moved aside, forming an improvised path.
And there he appeared.
He was young.
Too young for what I had expected.
Maybe only a couple of years older than me.
Tall, slender but with defined muscles, golden skin under the dirty glow of the streetlights.
Dark hair, almost black, pulled back.
And the eyes…
My heartbeat stopped.
They were the same.
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