Maya’s POV
The kiss.
The snake.
The way I threw up like a total i***t.
It all played on repeat in my head as Liam cleaned up the mess without a word. He carried the snake’s carcass deep into the jungle, came back, and gently but firmly guided me inside his hut.
“You’re not doing another damn thing tonight,” he said, his voice low. “Rest. That’s an order.”
I almost told him where he could shove his “orders,” but I was too drained.
So I just lay back on the bench and let exhaustion take me.
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When I woke up the next morning, the world was wrong.
Not in the way it had been since the wreck, this was different.
The wrongness clawed deep inside me, sharp and twisting, making me curl into myself. The cramps came in waves, merciless, knocking the air out of my lungs.
“No, n
