Kaida's POV
Oh, hell. This was a mess. A complete disaster. I understood Damon perfectly because I was definitely mad at him. Furious, even.
There was no denying it. And now, he just wanted to make it up to me, but the timing couldn’t have been worse.
He’d taken me to the hollow to calm my nerves, to help me relax—because it always worked for him—but for me, it had the opposite effect.
Still, I couldn’t say it was a terrible idea, because it revealed things to me, things I didn’t know.
It pulled me back into my past, showed me parts of myself I hadn’t fully faced. So, in a way, it hadn’t been a total disaster.
I was just angry because he’d yanked me out of the water. He thought I was drowning. But I wasn’t. I was healing.
I was seeing my mother for the first time, even if it w
