Mated To My Mate's Worst Enemy (ARIA) novel Chapter 594

Chapter 594

ARIA

The mindlink at full capacity was nothing like I'd expected.

I'd been building toward it for weeks — the spoke system, the anchor channel, the thirty-wolf foundation — and I'd thought I understood what the full connection would feel like from the inside. I'd felt thirty wolves through the link and thought I knew the scale of it.

Thirty was not two hundred and fourteen.

The full pack connection arrived like sound arriving after a long silence — not gradually, not building, but present and comprehensive and louder than anything I'd been prepared for. Every wolf in Shadowmere, back in their human forms, rediscovering that the link was active and having significant opinions about this discovery and sharing those opinions at full volume through a channel that had been quiet for three years.

Silver said: *Oh.*

*I know,* I said.

*They're very loud,* she said.

*Yes,* I said.

*All of them,* she said.

*Yes,* I said.

The link was—

*IT SMELLS,* someone said, at a volume that suggested they'd discovered the mindlink's broadcast capacity and had no concept of modulating it. *WHY DOES IT SMELL LIKE THAT. IT DIDN'T SMELL LIKE THAT BEFORE.*

*That's Garrett,* someone else said. *Garrett has always smelled like that. You just couldn't smell it from this distance before.*

*I HAVE BEEN EATING LUNCH WITH GARRETT FOR THREE YEARS,* the first voice said.

*I know,* said the second.

*RIGHT NEXT TO HIM,* said the first.

*Yes,* said the second.

*WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME,* said the first.

*We didn't have the link,* said the second.

*WE COULD HAVE LEFT A NOTE,* said the first.

Garrett, somewhere in the group, said: *I can hear this.*

*WE KNOW,* said the first. *WE ARE AWARE.*

A different section of the link: *I can see — why can I see so far. I'm looking at the eastern treeline and I can see individual leaves. I could not see individual leaves this morning.*

*The wolf vision is back,* someone explained.

*I can see Margo from here,* said the first person. *Margo, can you hear me.*

Margo, from somewhere in the pack: *Yes.*

*I'm waving,* said the first person.

*I see you,* said Margo.

*I'm very far away,* said the first person.

*I know,* said Margo.

*This is remarkable,* said the first person.

A third section: *My hands feel different. Is anyone else's hands feeling different.*

*That's the strength returning,* someone said. *Don't pick anything up until you recalibrate.*

*I picked something up,* said the original voice.

*What,* said someone else.

*The bench,* they said.

A brief silence.

*The stone bench,* they clarified. *From the eastern garden.*

*Put it down,* said multiple people simultaneously.

*I'm trying,* said the original voice. *My hands are not listening.*

*PUT IT DOWN.*

*IT'S VERY HEAVY FROM THIS ANGLE—*

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