Chapter 200

I looked at Cormac, my heart stopped a beat.

His face was drained of color in a way I had never seen. Cormac, who laughed at broken bones and walked into battle humming. Cormac, whose hands were always steady. Those hands were shaking now.

"The bond," he said, and his voice was rough. "It's killing him."

The words landed like stones in water. They sank. They kept sinking.

I stood there in the cour