RIVER BROWNI feel it, deep in my bones, deep in my heart I feel his absence and it chokes me so bad I think I fail to breathe for so many seconds as Malia drags me away and into the woods.I can feel the mate bond severed by their rejection, severed by Connor’s…Connor’s…no.“We—have to go back”, my throat bubbles with a sob.I stop, the tears free fall down my cheeks as everything turns hazy.We have to go back.For Connor.I have to hold him. I have to give him warmth, he was so cold, he was…so unmoving.I have to wake him up.Malia’s hand lands on my cheek but I don’t see her.I can’t see her when grief subdues me and holds its ugly claws to my neck.“They rejected you, River! One of them is gone, there’s no going back from that. I’m sorry, okay? Landon wouldn’t have fired his gun if I hadn’t gone to the cursed lands but that’s already done, River. Listen to me, they won’t get over this. I don’t think they consider you anything to them so do as they said, sister and get out of her
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