CHAPTER 55THE KING’S MATEPOV: IslaThe first thing I felt was pain.Not the sharp kind that made you scream, but the heavy kind that seemed to have settled inside every bone in my body. My head throbbed, my muscles ached, and even breathing felt like something I had to concentrate on.The second thing I felt was warmth.Someone was holding my hand.I tried to move my fingers, but they barely responded. My eyelids felt impossibly heavy, and when I tried opening them, the light hurt so badly that I immediately squeezed them shut again.“Isla?”That voice.My heart recognized it before my mind could catch up.“Isla, sweetheart? Can you hear me?”Ryan.I tried to answer, but my throat felt like sandpaper. All that came out was a weak, unpleasant sound.“Oh, Moon Goddess.”The hand holding mine tightened.“Open your eyes for me, love. Please.”I wanted to tell him to stop sounding so scared because it was making me scared too.But apparently, my mouth had decided to stop cooperating with
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