Davina's POV
My body was no longer mine.
Pain. Raw, devastating pain was all I could feel. Unrelenting, merciless pain that seemed to crawl beneath my skin and splinter through my bones. My vision was blurred from tears, the earth underneath me felt like it was moving, like I was floating through agony, fire dancing on every nerve in my body.
Maybe the pain killers might have helped if it hadn't been stolen. I was going to die. I would not survive this torture.
And then I saw him.
Lucien.
He stepped forward and knelt in front of me.
I didn't believe it at first. He was just a fragment of my imagination. One conjured by my sick mind to mock me.
But then he reached out, his hands firmly cupping my jaw and making me look at him. I felt him. And I knew that he was real.
"Lucien." I wh
