LIAM POV
For a moment, all I could hear was the sound of my own blood pounding in my ears.
Penny stood in front of me with wind moving her hair and that horrible, hollow look in her eyes, like she had already walked ten steps away from me inside her own head and I was only now realizing I had been left behind.
I had seen her angry.
I had seen her reckless.
I had seen her laugh so hard she cried and cry so hard she got angry about it.
But I had never seen her like that.
Gone.
Far enough that my chest had started to cave in before she even opened her mouth.
And then she had laughed.
That ugly, broken sound had torn out of her, and for one sick second I thought—
I thought she wanted out.
I thought Luka’s words had finally settled in her mind, that possible bond, possible mate, po
