Chapter 162
Annalise
I couldn't sleep.
I couldn't think.
I didn’t know what to do.
Every time I closed my eyes, I heard them. Their screams. The pounding of fists against the walls. The agony that rattled through my bones, through my very soul. Even in the silence of the night, the echoes of their pain refused to leave me.
Demonis was right about one thing—we were running out of time.
I didn’t know how much of what he had told me was the truth, how much was twisted in his favor. But there was one undeniable fact—my mates were getting weaker. Their bodies, their minds, their very existence was withering inside those cursed chambers.
And I was powerless.
I hated being powerless.
So I did the only thing I could—I searched.
I roamed the dark halls of this forsaken kingdom, my feet d
