(Zara's POV)This first real walk out of bed after days of lying there is like reclaiming my body.My legs shake, shaky from the fever and whatever poison had ravaged my system. But the forest air is clean and sharp, and with every breath I know I'm alive. That whatever happened, whatever Marcus did to me, it's over now.Rylan tried to leave me in bed a day longer. Hovered as if I were fragile glass and would shatter if I budged too quickly. But I needed this. Needed to remind myself that I could still walk, still be, still be something other than the ailing girl everyone worried over.The wood trail is one familiar to me, one that I've walked a thousand times. It leads me to the creek where I sat at the worst of times with Harry, when I needed time to get my head together without pack politics encroaching around me.Harry.His name still hurts, even today. Even after witnessing what he became, what he tried to do, how Kael had t
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