CHAPTER 35
Killian’s POV:
My legs pounded against the forest floor, each step echoing like a heartbeat in the silence of the woods. Everything was like a blur as I pushed faster, shadows from the tangled branches reached for me as I ducked beneath them, the air thick with the scent of wet forest and damp earth. I leapt over jagged boulders, pushing my body to their limit as exhaustion clawed at me, but I couldn't stop—not yet.
Finally, I skidded to a halt, running my hands through my short hair, the sticky strands plastered over my forehead from perspiration. I stood above a rocky ledge, pebbles rolling off the edge, falling into the dense forest below.
A breath I didn’t realize I had been holding escaped my nostrils and I sighed. Running for two hours straight without a break wasn’t
