Chapter 126

Nora

I woke to unfamiliar softness, and my first instinct was to freeze. The bed was too comfortable, the blanket too warm, the pillow smelling faintly of lavender and chamomile. Not the harsh medicinal scent of the station, not the musty damp of places I'd hidden before. This was different.

Memory crashed back: Soren's hands on my throat, Avery's voice cutting through terror, the silver-black wol