Elysia's
I woke before dawn with a tightness in my chest that made breathing feel like drowning.
The dim light in the room pressed in from all sides, but I couldn't close my eyes anymore. Every time I try to close my eyes I see them. My own hands began trembling as they rifled through Kael's desk drawer, pulling out documents I had no right to touch. Documents with his seal, his signature, his private correspondence with neighboring packs.
Three weeks had passed since he found me in that clearing. Three weeks of him checking on me, protecting me, treating me like I mattered. Three weeks of slowly rebuilding something that felt dangerously close to trust.
And last night, I destroyed it all.
The memory played on an endless loop. Kael holding me after dinner, his arms wrapped around me
