Sindy
Morning broke gray and heavy, the air thick with the promise of rain.
I hadn’t slept—not a minute. The shadows on my walls had shifted through the long hours of the night, but the fire in my chest never dimmed. His words still echoed through me, low and steady, whispered at my door.
Tomorrow, you’ll have to trust me.
I’d sworn to myself I wouldn’t. I couldn’t. Trusting him was the one thing I had left to deny him, the one wall that kept me from being completely swallowed whole.
But the bond pulsed hot with every heartbeat, mocking me.
Because deep down, I feared it was already too late.
The whispers reached me before I even left my chamber. Wolves passed in the corridor, their voices sharp, carrying the word like a torch.
The crossing.
I froze halfway down the stairs, my sto
