KERES POV
A sound came out of me.
I had no idea what it was.
Mine or Samael’s.
Maybe both.
I was not thinking. I was not feeling my own body anymore. I was just there, frozen on the spot, watching the love of my life slip away from me.
And I could do nothing.
Fucking nothing.
Aiden moved though.
Of course he did.
His body was half-dead, his hands were shaking, his face was wrecked, but he went straight to the table with that terrible Aiden-focus that made me want to punch him and hug him and drag him away before his brain had time to say the thing his eyes were already seeing.
Because I couldn’t hear those words.
Couldn’t.
“Restraints,” he snapped.
Nobody moved.
“Now.”
Thane broke the strap across Perse’s left wrist without looking away from her face.
I tore the right one
