Chapter 134

Kara POV

The nightmare didn’t just wake me. It shattered me.

I jolted upright in the cold tent, heart hammering like a beast desperate to escape my chest. My skin prickled with a fire I couldn’t douse, silver roots crawling beneath my flesh like they wanted to strangle me from the inside out.

The fae queen’s cruel laughter still echoed in my ears, cold and mocking, burrowing deep like it had carved a permanent space inside my bones.

“You belong to me.”

I swallowed hard, trying to force air back into lungs that felt too tight, too shallow. The weight of it pressed down harder every second, like something invisible had decided I wasn’t allowed to rise above it.

The tent walls suddenly felt unbearable—too close, too suffocating, like they were closing in