Chapter 5995

—and squeezed.

Miles’ scream never left his mouth.

It collapsed inward, swallowed before it became sound.

His body jerked once, violently, heels scraping furrows into the stone floor. Veins bulged along his neck as instinct tried to force resistance through channels that no longer existed.

Behind him, Jared stood unmoving.

One palm rested lightly against the butcher’s back.

No flare.
No roar of power.
Only absorption.