LENA’S POV
I couldn't move. Couldn't breathe. Could not remember beyond the paralysis that had glued me when Ash had been done with me. My head was lost deep inside somewhere far away and safe, as if my body became an empty shell left behind. Everything, she remembered it all: the pain, the fear, the inexplicable wrongness of what had happened.
And then I heard Riven’s throaty voice, ragged with a pain that had nothing to do with me because my godsdamned death was probably the last thing on his mind right now an apology I’m sorry Echó felt though our mate bond.
Question My eyes strained to see what was in front of me. Kael was slumped up against the wall, blood pouring from a gash near one of his eyes, pants coming harsh and heavy. Riven was on the ground close by, his face bruised and
