Chapter 122

**Evangeline's POV**

*Come back to me.*

The voice hit me like a lightning bolt to the chest as I walked down the corridor away from the torture chamber.

I stumbled, my silk slippers skidding on the smooth obsidian floor. My hand flew to my heart, fingers pressing against the spot where the mate bond lived like a burning coal beneath my ribs.

But it wasn't just his voice I felt. 

Warmth bloomed at my wrist, phantom heat where his fingers had ...