Calla's POVI didn’t know how long had passed, but I started feeling intense heat. The cold, hard ground beneath my back. The bite of winter air in my lungs. A throbbing ache in my chest that told me, viciously and without mercy, that I was alive.It hurt. God, it hurts. Every nerve ending in my body screamed in protest, every muscle burned, and it was the most exquisite pain I had ever felt.Because it meant I was here.“Calla?” Brynn’s voice, which was raw and utterly ruined, cut through the haze. “Calla, can you hear me?”I tried to answer. My throat felt sandy, my tongue was swollen and useless. I managed a sound … something between a groan and a breath … and the body beneath my head went rigid with hope.“She’s back,” Brynn said, and his voice broke. “Blade, she’s back.”Blade.I turned my head a little too fast, causing the world to spin, and there he was. Kneeling at my side, his face streaked with dirt, tears, and blood, his eyes so wide they looked almost wild. He reached f
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