Chapter 261. Fight

Love’s POV

My heart slammed violently against my ribs the moment I recognized the massive form that crashed into Maleck.

Ellis.

It was Ellis’s lycan.

Relief flooded me so fast it made me dizzy. For a brief second, I forgot the pain, the blood soaking my clothes, the burning wounds across my body. He found me. He really found me. The bond between us pulsed like a living thing, stretching tight and then snapping back into place as if it had been holding its breath this entire time.

His presence was overwhelming.

Ellis’s lycan was bigger than I had ever seen him—larger than memory, larger than fear. His fur bristled, standing on end as though charged with lightning. His aura rolled outward in suffocating waves, pressing down on everything around hi