Zara still didn't acknowledge me.Forget acknowledgment — I was being disrespected and threatened inside my own body, treated worse than a slave. Worse than a criminal. At least criminals got to speak in their own defense. I couldn't even get a response.This is humiliating, I thought, and nobody cared."April." Aiden's voice cut through everything happening inside my head — low, direct, aimed precisely at whoever was currently occupying my face. He was trying to figure out who was still in charge. I had gone quiet and completely still for long enough that he'd noticed. "Can you hear me?"A pause."You must be April's wolf," he said, his voice shifting slightly, recalibrating. "Am I right?"Hearing his voice did something unexpected — it gave me something to reach for, some kind of anchor outside the chaos in my head. I pushed forward harder than I had been, clawing for control with everything I had left.It didn't work. But I kept trying."Hmm." Zara's lips curved — my lips, my face,
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