The Consequence of Betrayal

POV: Kaelen

One minute I am peacefully asleep in the quiet packhouse, and the very next, my eyes snap open as I violently wake up to the most agonizing, entirely unbearable physical pain of my entire life. A searing, blinding torment rips directly through my chest, instantly stealing the air from my burning lungs. I can barely breathe. Through the sacred, unbreakable mate bond, a sickening, expli