Chapter 0348

"Ariel!" Rafe shouts, his arms going around me, holding me close. I press my eyes shut, my hand pressed to my side.

The bell rings, stopping the round-thank god - and I can feel Luca's relief. But still, the pain radiates, and I stay pressed to my brother's side. "Ariel!" my mom gasps, suddenly next to me. "What the -*

"She's feeling it, mom!" Rafe says, his voice shaking with his anxiety. "I don't know how - but his ribs - whatever happened, she's feeling it too -*

"Oh my god," my mom says as my dad comes rushing to my other side, as our family and friends simultaneously make space for us even as they stand between us and the low wall of the box, shielding us from prying eyes.

Mom looks frantically at my dad. "Dominic," she murmurs, "is this possible? Can she get hurt because he's getting hurt?"

dad murmurs, coming close and feeling at my ribs where

back towards my mate. "Luca's ribs are broken!"

He murmurs to her, and her hand is

murmurs. "But yours are not. Okay? You are feeling it

possible!?" mom gasps, looking between me

snaps his fingers in front of my face, drawing my attention back to him. "You have to close it down. The bond - close your end of it, just

barking his words out by the end and I

do it with me." And I focus on my mom's face, and close my eyes when she closes hers, and then I feel the calming lavender of her gift sweep

no

her as she guides me down into my soul to where my bonds are. There,

of the bond gently in my mental hands, and then as she said - just...gently pinch it off,

my own head - I don't know.

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