Keziah's POV:My arms were wrapped tightly around my torso as I stood by her bedside, staring at her unconscious form. She looked so fragile, so unlike the fiery girl I knew, and it made my chest ache in ways I didn’t want to acknowledge. The wounds on her body, the ones we found her with, had already healed, but the sight of her lying there so still, so lifeless, stripped of her usual spark, made my heart clench painfully.Her eyelids were shut, hiding the vibrant light that used to dance in her eyes. That light was her strength, her fire, and without it, she looked… empty. My mind drifted back to the event of today earlier, to the image of her being bullied at school. I could still see it vividly: the way they threw things at her, the cruel laughter, the jeering words. It had taken everything in me to hold back that moment. My wolf had wanted blood, had wanted to tear those people apart limb by limb. I’d barely managed to keep myself in check, and even now, that memory lingered l
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