Chapter 26
Guilia
The back of my head throbbed with a burning pain that didn’t want to stop no matter how many angles I tried to keep my head in. Worst still, when I turned again, I felt a twinge on my neck. It intensified with the breeze grazing against it and then I forced my eyes open.
It had been shut for a while, maybe hours or days, but I couldn’t keep up with time because of the ache that didn’t stop spreading throughout my body.
I almost jerked when my eyes made contact with another brown set gazing at me, in a probing, unsettling manner. She was a woman, I realized, through the softness of her face, the pointedness of her beautiful nose and the brown hair that framed her head.
“You are finally awake,” She declared with relief, her lips spreading with a smile.
My throat was
