Chapter 218

Harper

I don’t know how much time had passed.

Minutes. Hours. Maybe longer. Time didn’t exist where I was—only pain and drifting, broken awareness. Consciousness came back to me in fragments, dragged to the surface by rough hands shaking my shoulder hard enough to make my head loll.

Pain exploded at the back of my skull.

I gasped, a sharp, involuntary sound tearing from my throat as I sucked in ai