NICKLAUSMy eyes snap shut, but sleep refuses to come. It’s been one hell of a day, no, one hell of a week, and the pounding in my head feels like World War III just broke out inside my skull. I’d popped two painkillers an hour ago, but the damn things aren’t doing a thing. The ache lingers, dull and merciless. I'm sitting at the edge of my bed, staring out into the dark sky, scattered with its heavenly bodies, the moon, glowing with a quiet joy, and the stars, proud and steady like a silent sentinel. They remind me of one figure, one memory I refuse to entertain. I push the thought away before it can fully form.It all still feels like a nightmare. A bad dream I can’t wake up from.Rafael, our Alpha, my brother, is dying. If the curse runs its course, he won’t even make it past thirty. Two more years. That’s all he’s got left unless we figure this out.The elders are locked up, right where they belong and just ust like Rafael had ordered. He’s not going to torture them, said when the
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