LILA’S POVDarkness. Thick, suffocating darkness pressed against me from every side. My chest ached, lungs burning as though I’d been running for days. Every instinct screamed at me, clawing to wake, to fight, to survive—but my body refused.The last thing I remembered was the suffocating grip of her power, the woman with red eyes and that impossible aura of control. The last sound was the terrified shouting of the quadruplets—Marcus, Ethan, Callum, and Davian—all helpless while I crumbled under a force I didn’t yet understand.And then… I was somewhere else.A forest, moonlight filtering through the trees, silver and cold. The air smelled of earth, and something darker—something ancient. My eyes opened, and I gasped, the wind filling my lungs as though I had been drowning.“I’m… alive.” My voice was hoarse, trembling with anger I hadn’t been able to release in years. I pushed myself up, and the bond screamed in response, thrashing in agony, pulling at me like a live thing. The quadrup
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