The Professor’s Mate: The Moonborn Legacy
One spirit pinned my shoulder, its weight crushing, while another slashed my chest, fabric ripping as skin split open.
Blood soaked my shirt, warm and sticky, and the curse amplified every wound, turning pain into fire that consumed my thoughts. Visions looped in my mind—Isabella's kiss with Caleb, her swollen belly, my lonely death. Doubt rooted deeper, sapping my strength, making my strikes slower and weaker.
"Get out of my head," I gasped, rolling to avoid a descending claw and kicking upward to disperse a spirit into fog.
But they reformed instantly, pressing in tighter, their whispers turning to shouts. "She belongs to another. You’ll die forgotten."