LILA’S POV
It was burning.
No
consuming.
My body arched off the ground as something inside me ripped through every vein, every nerve, every piece of me that still felt like mine. The pain wasn’t just physical it was deeper than that.
It felt like something was trying to rewrite me from the inside out.
“LILA!”
Voices crashed around me, distant and distorted, like I was underwater.
My vision flickered.
Gold.
Darkness.
Gold
Then red.
I gasped, choking on air that felt too thick, too heavy, like even breathing had become a battle I was losing.
“Get back!” Ethan’s voice roared.
“No!” Nathan
Nathan.
The sound of his voice cut through everything.
My body jerked violently as I tried to focus, tried to hold onto that sound, that one anchor in the chaos tearing me apart.
“Nathan…”
