KELILAH’S POV
The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the strange lightness in my body. The fever that had kept me in bed the entire day was gone. I should have been relieved, but instead, confusion clouded my thoughts. I tried to recall what had happened the night before, how I had ended up feeling so weak, but a dull headache throbbed at the back of my skull, disrupting my ability to think clearly.
I sighed, pushing the thoughts aside for now. My room was silent—just the way I liked it. No father, no Zara, no endless restrictions and best of all no Korvus.
As always, I reached for the novel by my bedside and let the words pull me into another world.
Reading had never been my thing before, but when Loveth left to travel with our mother, I found myself longing for an escape. The
