CHAPTER 117: Awake in the Dark, Bound in SilenceAllison’s POVDarkness wasn’t supposed to feel this loud.It pressed in on me, thick and suffocating, like it had weight... like it was sitting on my chest, daring me to breathe wrong.And God, breathing hurt.Every inhale scraped down my throat like broken glass, my lungs dragging in air that tasted metallic and wrong. My body felt… off. Not just sore, not just bruised. Wrong in a way that crawled under my skin and settled deep in my bones.For a second, I didn’t move.Didn’t think.Didn’t exist.Then the pain hit properly.It came in waves, sharp and electric, like my nerves were still remembering whatever the hell those darts had done to me. My fingers twitched against the ground... cold, smooth, concrete... and a weak, pathetic groan slipped out before I could stop it.“Wow,” I rasped, my voice barely there. “Ten out of ten. Loved that. Let’s never do it again.”Silence answered me.No Ashley.No Lucius.No Martha.That snapped some
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