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Chapter 22

ADRIA'S POV.

I was going down effortlessly, plunging down the tree I had climbed with much effort, and falling to a sure death. My heart was flying as it had left whatever it always sat on and there was that helpless feeling I hated. I shook my legs and arms, screaming and trying to hold onto something but I only got hit by numerous branches bouncing off them until I reached branch which had no other branch underneath it.

It meant nothing was going to break my fall.

I kept on going down and down at the speed of lightning and finally, I hit the ground with a scream.

My breath was seized, and slowly I began to let it go, wondering if I had injured my nerves or they had all died, because I couldn't feel a single thing. It had been a painless fall.

I gasped in relief, and waited to see if I was going to feel the pain again but it didn't come. It seemed ridiculous. I could feel tired, exhausted, breathless, and sore but I couldn't feel pain? Just then, I felt something wet,