ADINNA’S POV
I wake up with a heaviness in my chest, like the night never really ended. The sun filters weakly through my curtains, but it doesn’t warm me. It just sits there, pale and distant, the same way everything has felt since the Solstice Ball. My body still hums with that strange, unexplainable energy like the echo of lightning trapped under my skin. Every breath feels too shallow, too aware. It’s been days, but the pull hasn’t faded.
Everyone around school has already moved on. The students talk about upcoming exams, weekend runs into town, anything but that night. It’s like the entire school collectively decided to forget. But I can’t. I feel it in my veins, in my pulse, in the way my wolf stirs whenever I close my eyes. No one knows what really happened except Riley and the
