Timothy's POV

I stare at Penelope, her words hanging in the air between us. She just touched my hand and jerked back like she'd been burned. Now she's looking at me with those big hazel eyes, waiting for me to say something.

"Please," she whispers, wrapping her arms around herself. "Please don't tell me you didn't feel that."

I did feel it. The second her skin touched mine, something inside me snapped into place. Kael suddenly went crazy in my head, pacing and snarling with ...