Unraveling the Pact

GAEL'S POV

The garden air buzzed around me, thick with the hum of power I hadn’t yet learned to control. I floated a few feet above the wild grass, held in the center of the pine manor garden like a puppet with invisible strings. Calypso’s threads glittered in the dim sunlight as she spun them, webbing her way across the air, crawling slow and sure toward my chest.

“Do you feel it?” I asked.

She r