Lorien POV

“Speak to me, baby. Tell me you’re okay.”

Auren’s voice cracked with desperation, but the thing constricting my chest only tightened its hold. A broken groan escaped me, water spraying as Ardyn’s voice thundered across the lagoon, screaming for Auren to get out.

I wanted to say he was right that both of us needed to get out that something was horribly wrong. But my lungs refused to work. My voice was gone.

“How long until she heals?” Auren shouted, fighting to be ...