Nauseous

### Chapter: The Unseen Burden

#### Aurora’s POV

I could feel the city spinning around me as I walked down the street. The sounds of traffic, the chatter of people, and the distant sirens all blended into a dull hum, like background noise to my internal battle. I told myself it was just stress, just the weight of everything—my escape from the pack, the rejection ceremony, and now trying to build a new life in the city. It had to be stress. Right?

But deep down, I knew something wasn’t right.

Every step felt heavier than the last. My head spun, my vision blurred, and the nausea that had been coming and going for days now hit me like a wave. I stopped at the corner, gripping the cold metal of a street pole, trying to steady myself. The dizziness swirled around me again, tightening my chest.

“Are you okay?” Derek’s voice broke through the haze.

I hadn’t even noticed him walking beside me, watching my every move like he always did. There was something so calming about Derek, something t