Astrid’s POVThe walls of the Packhouse had never felt so suffocating.Days had passed since Elara was taken, but time had lost all meaning. The world outside moved on, but inside these walls, inside this nightmare, everything was frozen—suspended in a relentless cycle of fear, exhaustion, and waiting.Waiting for news. Waiting for a sign. Waiting for something, anything, to bring my daughter back.But all I had were the heavy, sinking hours in between, where every breath felt like a struggle, where every shadow in the room felt like it was closing in on me.Ryker’s condition wasn’t improving.If anything, he was getting worse.He barely spoke. He barely ate. When he did sleep, it was restless and fitful, his small hands gripping the sheets as if he were still in battle, as if he were still fighting off the monsters that had stolen his sister.Every time he closes his eyes to sleep, he wakes up screaming his sister’s name, tormented by nightmares.Ryker is blaming himself for what ha
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