KAYLEIGH POV - CHAPTER 68
Pain was the first thing that greeted me when consciousness returned.
Not the sharp kind that comes from a clean wound, but the deep, pounding ache that settles behind the eyes and spreads slowly through the skull like a hammer striking bone from the inside. For a few seconds I kept my eyes closed, letting the darkness stay where it was, because instinct told me that whatever waited on the other side of waking up was not going to be pleasant.
My memory arrived in fragments.
Gunfire.
The clearing.
My Hunters shouting.
The ground splitting open beneath my feet as Force ripped through the earth in violent waves.
Then the darkness.
My eyes opened slowly.
The first thing I noticed was the stone beneath my back. It was cold, uneven, and wrong in a way I felt i
