Chapter 38

Mara’s POV

I woke to silence. For one confused second, I thought I had gone deaf.

The infirmary looked normal. Morning light came through the narrow windows. Maeve stood at the foot of the bed arguing with Ronan, and I could see her mouth moving, but her voice reached me as if she were speaking from the other side of deep water.

Even my own body felt far away.

I could not feel my wolf, the echo.

I could barely tell where my hands ended beneath the blanket.

Panic arrived before sensation did.

Maeve noticed my eyes were open.

“Mara?”

Her voice sounded distant, flattened by the strange ringing emptiness in my head.

Ronan turned so quickly his c