Into The Viper's Nest

Valeria's POV

The stiff vinyl chair in the pack hospital waiting room dug into my spine. I sat rigid, staring at the sterile white tiles between my scuffed boots. Nausea twisted my stomach into tight, heavy knots. Six years. Six long, agonizing years of exile, sleeping in dirt, fighting for scraps, and bleeding on the forest floor, and now I was marching straight back into Nadia’s territory. My e