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Not now.
Not ever again.
“Hunter.” He presses, and at the deepest level, I want to obey my pack leader. I want to shut my mouth, give in, go on, and let him eat the responsibility.
But I can’t.
“We’re going to lose her.” I glance at the girl in question. Lilah stands with Orion, grey eyes sparkling. Probably wants a bowl of fucking caramel corn while she watches our pack melt down. She can have it. She can have anything as long as she stays right there. “Yield, At.”
His jaw clenches.
Yield isn’t in his word bank.
Atlas grew up with fall in line and follow the leader. Scorpio had us military march behind him to kindergarten.
This time, I can’t let him lead us deeper in the shit.
When Atlas hits back, I don’t bend.
Instead, I feel something ripping.
A scraping in my chest.
Rusted steel sawing a red-hot line from my throat to my heart.
I should cave, but I grit it out.
Eat the pain.
Rip it all to the ground.
The rope that binds us is so fucking raggedy, it can’t take the tug-of-war.
Deeper than flesh, it tears.
Flash.
Bang.
And our bond fries in a blaze of lightning.
My ears roar.
Atlas bellows.
The guys give the gasp of a kidney punch.
I brace to feel their pain, but there’s nothing.
Nothing.
The only pain I feel is my own.
Atlas. Finn. Jett. Orion.
All gone.
I swallow three times before my voice comes out in a ragged rasp. “I broke the bond.”
