Chapter 77

• Dawn
• The stress was eating me alive. I hated this, hated the way people looked at me like I was some kind of monster. It wasn’t always so obvious, but it was there, simmering in their eyes, that flicker of fear whenever I spoke or even walked into a room. I didn’t want this. I never wanted to be different. After everything I’d been through, I was finally blending in, and now this?
• The worst part of it all was seeing Princess, someone I considered my closest friend, becoming careful around me. She’d always been the most outspoken, the one who wasn’t afraid of anything. But now… now even she hesitated.