Elena POV “She’s waking up.” I heard a voice say just as I forced open my eyelids. They felt like they had been glued shut, and I blinked multiple times to regain focus, only to see three unlikely faces peering down at me. “Wh-What’s going on?” I asked, my voice coming out scratchy like sandpaper on glass. My head throbbed painfully as if someone had taken a hammer to it. Someone helped me sit up, and I turned to thank them only to find golden eyes staring intensely at me. Draven. Why was he here? Where was I? I glanced around the room, taking care not to move too much. My head wasn’t the only thing aching. My body felt like it had just been wrung through a washing machine. “Do you remember anything about how you ended up unconscious, child?” The witch doctor asked. We were in her ch

