Kali’s POVMy eyes fluttered open against a wall of dense, blinding fog, my mind scrambled and completely untethered. For a disorienting, terrifying moment, I didn't know who I was, where I was, or how I had gotten there. The earth beneath my back was cold, damp, and rough with decaying leaves.Slowly, memory bled back through the haze. The house. Emmett’s suffocating, desperate grip. The overwhelming realization that the pack was closing in, that the body of the man I had incinerated was out there, and that my secret was minutes away from exploding. I had panicked. I remembered bolting out of bed in the dead of night, slipping past the guards, and running blindly into the dark, freezing embrace of the woods just to escape.I had been running away.I tried to sit up, but a sudden, violent wave of nausea hit me. My chest felt like it was splitting wide open. My skin prickled, growing intensely hot—not with a normal fever, but as if an invisible, raging inferno had suddenly ignited dire
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