All Chapters of Reborn on my Mating Night: Chapter 11

The cheering was still ringing in my ears when I pushed back my chair.“Excuse me,” I murmured to no one in particular. “I need some air.”Zion’s head turned toward me, but I was already moving. Past the long table. Past Jessi’s glowing smile and Dakota’s arm around her waist. Past Hati, who glanced up as I went by, something unreadable in his tired face.Now, Freya was saying. Now, now, now.Not here. Wait.I slipped through a side door into a dark corridor, then out into the night.Cold air hit my skin. The moon blazed overhead, enormous and silver, so bright it cast shadows. The lawn stretched toward a black wall of pines, and the second my heels sank into the grass, my whole body seized.I stumbled. Caught myself on my hands.Freya, wait!I’ve waited twenty years.I kicked off my shoes and ran.*****I made it past the tree line before the first bone broke.It was my wrist. A sharp, wet crack, and white-hot pain shot up my arm. I bit down on my scream and fell to my knees in the f