Lily’s POV:
My head hurt,
My body did too.
The world refused to stop spinning around me.
The echo of the gunshot still rang hard against my ear, it chased every single breath I took, hard as those were now that my heart was beating faster than a raging waterfall.
My body was moving, my mind wasn’t.
I could feel and see Vera leading me out of the hall, but my mind was still back in the courtyard. Back where the sound of the trigger being pulled was the only thing that consumed my world.
Back when Damien Viscount, the mate I still barely knew, had thrown himself between me and death.
Back when I had stared into the barrel of a gun.
“A gun,”
The thought crossed my mind with an unmatched ferocity. I had not seen one in decades, not since I was a child at least. Wolves didn’
