The shadow-thread didn't hurt the way I expected. That was the worst of it. A severed thread would have screamed; this one had just gone quiet, muffled, a hand clamped over the mouth of the bond, Sable still there at the far end of it but unable to answer, like a voice calling from under deep water. He was alive. He was held. And every hour the Lady kept her cold blood-grip on him, I felt a little less of him, the way you feel a held breath start to burn. I had never been on this side of it...

Four Crowns is a serialized why-choose reverse harem fantasy romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.