chapter 24

Andrei I feel Donnie’s relief at completing the bond. His tether to Sierra blowing open, and I can hear her purring through him. Sage’s soft body tucked, snuggling against my hard one, feels right. Everything about her is fragile, I am petrified of breaking her. One slip and she will be right back with them. I hate seeing the way her body locks up, her muscles tense, and her face has that faraway expression like she is being transported back to a time right in front of us. Though I expected it to happen it didn’t. Our closeness didn’t break her, which is a massive relief. I hate feeling her slip away from me. All of that is made worse by feeling her emotions when she gets trapped in her head. It is like I am living the horror with her, and it sickens me. The things they did to her, I could almost see it in my head just through what she felt at the time. Her pain becomes mine. The scars on her body are the only traces left of what they did to her physically. But her mind is what I strug