And I wasn’t going to let her regret it.
The thought had barely settled before terror slammed through the bond.
Not mine.
Hers.
My eyes snapped open and the greenhouse returned all at once with smoke, blood, broken glass, the stench of death and the sight of Perse being ripped away from me.
“No.”
The word scraped out of my throat before I even realized I was speaking.
A monster had her. One arm wrapped around her waist, dragging her backward through the smoke, away from me, away from us, away from the only place in the world she was supposed to be.
I tried standing and my body immediately reminded me that I had lost enough blood to fill a bathtub.
Pain exploded through my neck, my chest, my shoulders, everywhere at once, bright and violent enough to almost put me back on the floor
