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Chapter 19
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2025-02-19 21:00:37POV: Mira
The forest pulsed with an energy I couldn’t name. The air was thick, cold, wrapping around me as I stood at the clearing’s edge, moonlight cutting through the canopy. Towering trees loomed, their branches twisted like ancient sentinels guarding a secret they had no intention of sharing.
I didn’t want to be here. Every step that had brought me to this place had been reluctant, every instinct telling me to run. But the bond wouldn’t let me. It tugged, invisible and unrelenting, pulling me toward Lucan and the ritual the council demanded.
Lucan stood at the clearing’s center, torchlight flickering around him. His amber eyes found mine the moment I stepped forward, the pull between us flaring like a spark catching dry tinder. My chest tightened, heartbeat erratic. He looked calm, controlled, but I knew him well enough to see the tension in his clenched jaw, the stiffness in his shoulders.
He didn’t w
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