Severed Bond

Ella

“Go,” Ryatt says as I back out of his arms.

“I’ll come find you in a little while,” I tell him, my heart racing. Something’s wrong with Maddy. She was fine this morning.

Ryatt gives me a tight smile, but behind his eyes is a great deal of pain I can’t quite decipher. There’s so much unsaid between us. Hell, before all of this madness happened, before we went our separate ways so he could fight and I could bring Cassian to the Coven, he’d essentially accused me of working for the enemy and tried to force me to come here, back to my family.

And then he’d died in my arms, the last words on his lips that he loved me. We haven’t had a single moment to mend what’s been broken between us.

My chest aches as I watch him turn and walk away. There’s so much distance between us now without the ……