Kael’s Point Of ViewDarkness surrounded me like a second skin. My body ached in places I didn’t know I could feel pain. Every muscle throbbed, every breath hurt, and even blinking felt like a task. But it wasn’t the pain that kept me from sleeping, it was the silence. The quiet absence of Mira’s knock. The missing letter from Alina. The strange, brutal ambush from my trainer. None of it made sense.And I knew better than to believe that anything was a coincidence in Iron Fang.The moment I heard footsteps down the hallway, I quickly lay perfectly still on my cot, eyes half-lidded, body limp on the cot, pretending I was still unconscious. My breathing was shallow, even, measured—like someone teetering between sleep and death.Then I heard the door creak open.Footsteps entered. Two sets… no, three. Heavy, slow, cautious.I kept my breathing steady.“Still out cold,” one voice muttered. Karrik.The head warrior.I knew his tone… always flat, always cold. But now, there was something el
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