PENNY POV
I was halfway through pretending to care about calculus when I felt my sister disappear.
For one second, there was something.
A familiar golden pressure brushing against a place inside my chest that had always belonged to her, even before we knew which wolves we would get, even before we understood bonds and twin instincts and all the invisible strings tying us to the people we loved.
For one breath, I felt Eden.
Just a flash of wild golden warmth so sudden I almost dropped my pencil.
My heart jumped.
My wolf lifted her head inside me, alert and confused, and for a stupid, impossible second I smiled because maybe this was it.
Maybe Perse had finally gotten her back.
Maybe after days of watching my sister walk around like somebody had cut half her soul away and left her p
