KAELI woke up gasping.My lungs literally burned, my throat felt like someone had ran a sandpaper through it, and for that second, I couldn't remember where the fuck I was.The room tilted before my eyes, the light and shadow warping until my mind was steadied enough to take in the familiar sight of my chamber ceiling. "Alpha," a voice said near my left. It sounded way too calm.I turned immediately, though my muscles were aching, my body a hundred times heavier than it should be. It was Zach.He sat beside the bed, elbows resting on his knees, eyes on me. There was a smudge of blood at the edge of his collar.“You’re awake,” Zach said, as if the fact were mildly inconvenient.I pushed myself upright, fighting the tremor in my hands. "What..." my throat felt like sand. "What happened?"Zach’s gaze flicked over me. “You fainted.”“Fainted?”"That's what it is sounding like." Zach tilted his head slightly. "Lyria had called me, said you immediately fell down and fainted. When I came,
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