Chapter 86
Aurora’s POV
The weight of the power simmering beneath my skin felt like it could split me apart at any moment. Every breath I took felt like a battle against something fierce and untamed inside me. Hunter’s steady presence helped ground me, but the fear still clung to my thoughts, making it hard to focus on anything else.
The gentle way he had held me, the way his warmth had seeped into my bones, had kept me from falling apart entirely. But now, standing alone in my room, that comfort felt distant. The power inside me felt like a storm, and I didn’t know how to calm it. It was like waking up as someone else and being terrified of what that new version of me was capable of.
I stared at my reflection in the mirror, the faint glow in my eyes still lingering from earlier. The m
