The Lycan's Rejected Mate
Violet:
Sleep did not come easily anymore. Even when my body was exhausted, my mind refused to quiet. Images haunted the edges of my thoughts, the little girl’s braids swaying in the wind, the barren wasteland that had once been forest, the look on Aleric’s face when he realized what I had done. Eventually exhaustion dragged me under anyway.
But the moment sleep claimed me, something felt wrong.
I wasn’t in my room.
I stood in darkness, surrounded by a mist that curled around my ankles like living smoke. There were no walls, no floor, just an endless gray void stretching in every direction. My heart began to pound as instinct prickled across my skin.