POV: Daniel

The wind couldn’t hold her.

I left her inside because I had no choice. Because if I had stayed even one more second, I would have broken all of the vows I’d made to wait. The bond between us burned hot enough to blind me, but I still forced myself into the street, claws dragging lines into brick, lungs pulling smoke from a cigarette that I didn’t even taste.

But distance was an illusion.

Every heartbeat she made thudded in my chest. Every uneven ...