Elara Pov
I couldn't sleep, every time I closed my eyes I felt it.
The sharp bite of a blade cutting into skin that wasn't mine, the deep ache of bones breaking in a body I wasn't wearing.
Kael's pain was my pain now and I couldn't make it stop no matter how hard I tried.
"Go to him little light," Seraphina's voice purred in my mind, oddly quiet until now.
"Your mate is dying."
"He's not my mate," I said out loud to my empty room.
"I don't care if he dies."
Her laughter rolled through me like thunder.
"Liar, you feel it too don't you, the bond that formed the night of your wedding whether you wanted it or not, his heartbeat syncing with yours, his pain becoming yours."
I pressed my hands against my chest where I could feel it.
That second heartbeat alongside my own, growing wea
