Chapter 95

It was the dead of night, the world outside cloaked in silence, when Kaia awoke with a start. A sharp, searing pain bloomed across her neck, hot and merciless, as if her skin was being branded with fire. She sat up, disoriented, her fingers instinctively reaching for the spot where her mate mark had always rested, a place that had only ever brought her warmth and comfort.

But tonight, it burned.