Chapter 124: A New Me

Emily

 

I can’t sleep. Or, perhaps, more accurately, I don’t need to sleep.

 

Before laying down with Leander, I was exhausted. Completely hollowed out by everything the world has thrown at me over the last… forever, really. I can barely remember a time when I wasn’t living my life on high alert. Even back when it was just over term papers, which is absurd in hindsight. As if any of that mattered half as much as I felt like it did.

 

Now there’s a sense of higher purpose coursing through me, honing all my senses to a diamond point. Every facet shines, and it’s almost as if the entire universe is whispering its secrets directly into my soul. 

 

I can see everything, hear everything, experience everything. Bonding with Leander has opened up portals within me, and I can feel aspects of myself that have been cloistered away from me since birth. Secrets printed in my DNA that have lain dormant waiting for this moment.