Chapter 115

**Ronan's POV**

They came for me in the dead of night.

I had been walking through the Whispering Woods for hours, following the pull of the mate bond toward the distant palace. The trees around me moved without wind, their silver leaves catching moonlight and throwing it back in patterns that hurt to look at directly.

Everything in this realm felt wrong. The air tasted like copper and old flowers. The ground beneath my feet gave way slightly with each ...