The Cost of Survival

KELLAN’S POV

Loving Piper felt like standing in the middle of a storm and choosing not to run.

Her nightmares no longer came quietly. They tore through the night with violence, dragging her out of sleep as if something had followed her back from wherever her mind went when she dreamed.

I always felt it before she woke, the stiffening of her body, the shallow breaths, the way her fingers curled lik