“Hello, Cole.” Every muscle in Cole’s body froze. Even his heart stopped and his lungs stilled, his mind stalling for an endless moment as his vision went blurry. The horizon, a fuzzy squiggle of forest and fog and farm, turned neon-intense as the world went white. Every cell in his body seemed to detonate at once, a burn that seared through him like a nuclear blast. “Ian,” he breathed.
