Lily POV
The cracking Moon Stone burst with power that felt like swallowing lightning. Every wolf bond in the world – millions and millions of connections – rushed toward me and Caleb like a tidal wave of pure feeling.
"Hold on!" I screamed, gripping his hand harder as the flood of love, loyalty, and family ties poured into us. A mother's worry for her sick pup in Alaska. A grandfather's pride in his grandson's first hunt in Russia. Twin girls giggling together in Australia. Every single wolf relationship on Earth ran through our bodies at once.
It was beautiful and terrible and completely overwhelming.
Caleb's face twisted in pain as he tried to help me hold it all. "There's too much!" he gasped. "We can't hold every wolf connection that exists!"
He was right. The power was tearing us apart from the inside. I could feel our own mate bond straining dangerously thin as we tried to become vessels for the entire wolf world's love.
