KADE
I felt a double strike hit me like lightning out of nowhere, both impacts so powerful they nearly brought me to my knees. The first one happened when I was still in the room with Ronan, that sudden sharp pain in my chest that had made me clutch at my heart and stumble backward. At the time I'd thought it was just the mate bond reacting to Damon marking Sloane, that overwhelming sensation of pleasure and completion flooding through our twin connection even though I'd tried to block it out.
But the second strike hit me even harder the exact moment I reached the front gates of Cade's elementary school, and this time I knew immediately that something was terribly, horribly wrong. This wasn't pleasure or joy or anything positive. This was pure agony and fear and desperation, the feeling
