Chapter 56

[HOLLY’s Point of View]

I felt like the whole world was resting on my chest.

It was so hard to breathe.

Everything was black but I heard muffled noises. Voices of two people talking, not too far from me. I couldn’t comprehend what they were saying. They sounded like they were mumbling over something serious and my wolf could feel the tension in the air while I was trapped in something dark and empty inside of me.

I was floating in a void. I wanted to reach for the light shining dimly above me but whenever I tried to stretch my arms for it, something somewhere in my body burned. It was excruciating and I couldn’t exactly tell where the pain was because it was all over me. It was in every joint of my bones, in my stomach, in my head—it was in my bloodstream.

Fighting hard not to succumb to darkness, I swam and kicked my legs to the surface. I needed air. I needed to reach for that small light even though I knew what was waiting for me on the other side was pain and I had no idea if I