Chapter 10: The Bond Hunger

Lyria’s POV The fire in me had not faded. Even hours after the training, after the sweat dried on my skin, after my wolf’s claws retracted beneath the surface of my flesh, it still throbbed, pulsing with a rhythm I could not name. Every heartbeat seemed to echo against something inside Kael. Something between us. Something neither of us had control over. I should have left. I should have fled. The instinct to run was primitive, relentless. But my feet stayed planted. My wolf pressed...