I couldn’t breathe.
Not properly.
Not after what Kael said.
If you can’t control it… I’ll have to stop you myself.
The words clung to me like a shadow, following me out of the chamber, down the corridor, and into the quiet isolation of the room they’d given me.
My room.
It still didn’t feel like mine.
Nothing here did.
Not the walls.
Not the silence.
Not even my own body.
I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at my hands again.
Always my hands.
Like I was waiting for them to do something on their own.
Like I was afraid they would.
“A threat…”
The word tasted bitter.
I had come here thinking things might change.
That maybe—just maybe—I wouldn’t feel like an outsider anymore.
But nothing had changed.
Not really.
I was still the girl no one trusted.
Only now…
There was
