Kaliyah slowly came awake, and she knew immediately that she was was no longer in the forest.
She felt the softness of a warm bed beneath her, and she felt... warm. The last thing she remembered was cradling her stomach, staring at the lifeless bodies of the wolves that had been chasing her...
Her memories suddenly returned and she gasped, sitting up abruptly. Her quick movement caused the room to spin and she grabbed her head, groaning softly.
"Don't move so fast. You're still healing." A deep voice spoke from the corner of the room.
Her gaze settled on Soren who was standing close to the door, watching her carefully. That was when she remembered that moment in the forest, when she thought she was hallucinating.
Indeed her mind hadn't been playing tricks on her. Soren had really
