Varkos**Kael’s words land somewhere outside of me. They don’t register—not immediately, not the way words are supposed to. Hell, they don’t even make any damn sense to me.They… exist.Air stops moving in and out of my chest like it suddenly forgot how. The entire sitting room begins to blur around me, muffled sounds of Lady Ravena calling out my name, thinning until they feel distant, warped—like I’m underwater.A naked female body?At the cliff?Oh fuck!Holy fuck!I don’t blink.I don’t move.I don’t breathe.My heart continues to beat, slow and brutal, each thud echoing through my skull like a countdown. My vision tunnels, narrowing to nothing but the image my mind has already decided to show me.Ginnie’s body.Cold and still—No.“Alpha Varkos?”Kael’s voice cuts through the haze, faint, distorted. “Are you alright?”My fingers curl slowly at my sides, digging dip into my palms hard enough to draw blood, but the pain barely registers. Then reality slips back into me as my mind do
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