Chapter 125

Theo's POV The moment the mating bond snapped into place, reality shattered and reformed around us in patterns of golden fire and absolute truth. It was like a lightning strike to my soul, electric and devastating and completely transformative. Every carefully constructed wall I had built around my heart over decades of careful control crumbled to dust in an instant, leaving me raw and exposed and utterly changed. The sensation was not just physical pleasure, though our bodies moved together with perfect synchronization, but something far more profound that reached into the very core of my being. It was as if the universe had suddenly made sense, as if every decision I had ever made, every path I had chosen, had been leading inexorably to this moment of absolute completion. My wolf surged forward with a roar of triumph that echoed through both our consciousness and the physical world, his voice finally free to claim what had always been ours. The sound that emerged from my throat was p