Goddess, she was trembling so hard that it caused his own heart to quake in response. He shouldn't have waited so long. He thought that she had just run off to get distance from him. Had he know that she was in trouble, he would have uncovered their bond right away regardless of the risks.
And now with the realization that she had been in trouble—vulnerable to the extent that her pupils were dilated in terror and she was whimpering and clinging to him like he had never seen her, not even when she was a pup pursued by that monster in her dreams—a fierce, raging storm sprung to life in the sky above them, and he shifted her behind him protectively, blocking her from what was about to come.
