FAYE
That night, I didn’t sleep. I couldn’t. I lay there on the mattress, staring at the ceiling through the dim light that filtered in from the corridor.
The room was quiet except for the steady dripping of water from a leaky pipe somewhere nearby. Every drop echoed like a countdown. My head was heavy, my body sluggish, but my mind refused to shut down.
I had spent hours thinking of ways out...none of them good, but anything was better than lying here waiting for whatever they planned next.
The injection they’d given me earlier had left my limbs weak, my wolf, Nova, silent and buried deep. I could still feel her faintly...furious, clawing, desperate to fight...but she was too far beneath the haze for me to reach.
Still, I wasn’t totally helpless. Not yet.
As soon as I managed to p
