Chapter 5

Valerie's POV

I had been sleeping for an eternity. Or so it seemed.

My consciousness was stuck somewhere between light and darkness. I was floating around in a deep, dark abyss, punctuated only by unrecognizable sounds and flashes of light.

Voices swam in and out of my consciousness, and within those voices, I recognized the voice who had chased the rogue wolves away from me.

My dreams were every bit as riotous as the life I'd left behind. In them I saw Adam in every stage of his life since I'd known him, and the dreams always ended with him sneering and rejecting me.

I knew, even then, that the only way I could escape from those painful dreams was to wake up, but waking up was more difficult than I'd thought.

Then something sparked in my head, kick-starting my consciousness, and I woke up with a gasp.

Tears stabbed at my eyes the moment I opened it, and a sob escaped my lips. The trauma and pain from the past hours— or days