Lorenzo
The bond kept me awake long before dawn.
I didn’t need to see her to know she hadn’t slept. I felt every breath she took—rough and uneven. I felt every step she paced across her room. I felt every burst of anger that flared inside her chest. It all pressed against me like heat, like fire licking through my skin.
She was exhausted. Her body trembled with it. But she refused to rest.
Stubborn.
Always stubborn.
And gods, that made me want her even more.
Because even when she was falling apart, even when her body begged her to stop, she held on to her promise. “I won’t fall. Not for them. Not for you.”
But she already had.
She just didn’t know it yet.
I left my chamber before the lodge woke. My footsteps echoed in the quiet hallway. Wolves still slept, curled up in corners, t
