The Singer's Secret

***Roman’s POV***

I slept in broken, miserable, sweat-drenched intervals. Every time I managed to drift off, the sheer physical exhaustion of the last few days would drag me down into a pitch-black abyss, only for the agonizing, constant ache of our completely severed mate bond to violently rip me back to consciousness. It was a physical torture. A heavy, hollow void sat directly in the center o