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CHAPTER 242
~Zara's POV~
The pounding in my head felt like a relentless drumbeat, each throb echoing behind my eyes as I blinked them open.
The dim light in the room made it hard to see, but I forced myself to sit up, gritting my teeth against the soreness in my body.
Thanks to my wolf's abilities, most of the smaller bruises had already faded, and the deeper wounds felt closed, though tender. But something was wrong.
"Astrid?" I called in my mind, desperate to feel her presence.
No response.
I tried again, this time more urgently, "Astrid, please!"
Silence.
Panic began to creep in at the empty void in my mind. Astrid had always been there, even in my darkest moments.