The emotions hit me like a fucking truck.
One minute I was sitting there trying to eat the food Rhys had practically shoved down my throat, the next I was drowning in a tidal wave of—what was this? Hope? Joy? Something so foreign to me I couldn't even name it properly.
"Jax?" Rhys's voice sounded distant, concerned. "What's wrong?"
I shook my head, unable to speak. This wasn't my emotion. This was...
*Jaxon?*
I froze, my fork clattering to the plate. That voice. *Her* voice. Clear as day, inside my head.
"Great. Now I'm officially losing my fucking mind," I muttered.
*You're not crazy. It's me. It's really me.*
I stood up so fast my chair toppled backward. Rhys jumped up too, his hands reaching for me.
"Jax, what's happening? Talk to me!"
But I couldn't focus on him right now. All I could feel was her—Hazel—and something else. Something darker coming from another direction. Self-loathing, shame. Ronan, I realized. His emotions bleeding through whatever this connection was.