I was falling.
Or maybe floating—I wasn’t sure.
The world around me was dark, a void filled with burning heat and an eerie silence. My mind was a blank slate. No thoughts, no memories—just waves of pain crashing through my chest and fire licking at my skin from the inside out.
Something had been torn away from me.
Or someone.
I felt it the moment he chose another. Ron.
The severing of a bond I never asked for, never wanted—yet it had been mine. Tied to my soul, like a chain I didn’t remember putting on.
When it snapped, it didn’t just hurt. It broke something deep inside me.
Ria felt it more than I did. As much as I had tried to move on, as much as Ron had rejected me—she and his wolf had still been tied together. No rejection could change that.
And when that bond shattered... it
