Lulu

“Your mouth’s getting too cheeky. Take this again!”

Her hand hadn’t even reached my face when the air around us shifted.

Pressure—raw, unmistakable, rolled in the force of a wolf.

Leia’s wrist froze mid-air, a split second stretched thin, like time itself had stalled. Her eyes widened, not with anger this time, but fear—focused on something behind me.

“ENOUGH!”

The voice came from my back. Deep. Heavy. The kind of voice that made Leia’s body tremble where she ...