KAIA
My shoulder slams into stone, and pain explodes through me. I gasp, the air knocked from my lungs, my hip screaming where it hit the ground. Everything is pitch black. Suffocating darkness that presses against my eyes like a physical weight.
I try to breathe, but the air feels wrong. Too thin. Too cold. It hums with something that makes my skin crawl—Fae magic, my blood recognizes it before my brain catches up.
"Talia?" My voice comes out rough, barely a whisper. "You okay?"
A groan answers me, then the sound of movement. "Define okay." Talia's voice is sharp, angry. "Lewis is my mate, and now we're—" She cuts herself off. "Where the hell are we?"
I don't answer. Can't answer. I'm too busy trying to breathe through the panic clawing at my throat. We're in the Fae realm. We have t
