The mate bond

My head is spinning as I run through the darkness. I started along the road, the sound of my feet pounding against the pavement creating an eerie echo through the woods.

I need to get to Dante and Joan before it’s too late.

But the further I get from James, the more the ache in my chest intensifies. It’s almost debilitating. Stealing my breath from my lungs without care.

It’s like every nerve ending in my body is pulling me back to where I left James alone with those three monsters.

I stumble to my knees as the pain nearly sears my body in two. It feels like I’m being torn in half. Like my insides are begging to return to James.

The feeling isn’t foreign to me. I’ve felt this once before. The night of our last movie night.

It was similar to all of the times I’d had my episodes before, but so much stronger. Even now, the pain is far more intense than it was that night all those years ago.

The mate bond.

I forced myself up from the pavement, ignoring the screaming pain from where