THANE POV
They were close.
I could feel them through the link like two faint pulses moving somewhere above me, one focused and so f*****g tired, one burning too bright to be safe.
Guess who.
Aiden was thinking too hard.
I knew that without seeing him. I could hear it in the shape of his silence, in the pauses between his words, in the way he kept forcing the link open even though the effort was probably splitting his skull in half.
He always did that.
Took pain, folded it into something useful, and pretended the folding did not hurt.
Keres was worse, moving like violence had finally found legs.
I could feel Samael under him, too close to the surface. Not fully unleashed yet, but near enough to worry me.
And hell knew what he could do.
They were coming for me, but I couldn’t sto
