Kali's POV
My head throbbed like a war drum, and that was all the proof I needed to know that I was still alive, barely. I used to pride myself on the fact that I had survived the most gruesome things in my life. I'd watched my best friend bleed to death, I'd been whipped and tortured for something I didn't do, and I even got picked up by Diego and even though I thought I was close to death that night, nothing, absolutely nothing could measure up to the pain I was feeling now.
Red hot pain seared around me, like I'd been tossed into a fire pit and let to rot, only I didn't. Perhaps instead of burning me,my body had absorbed the flames, and now it was dealing with me from the inside out.
Yeah, that was a fair representation as to what I was feeling.
I stirred slowly, causing the thi
