Chapter 164

**Lyra**

The world tilted.

No—SHATTERED.

One second, I felt Rowan’s presence—steady, unyielding, the anchor I’d clung to through every storm. And the next?

It was gone.

Our bond.

It snapped like a frayed string, and I felt it tear through me with the force of a tidal wave.

I couldn’t breathe.

Pain—sharp, suffocating—ripped through my chest, spreading like fire. My knees hit the blood-soaked earth