Chapter 158 A Series Of Why

• Narine
• I was hotwiring, or hot-circuiting. Honestly, I didn’t even know the right word for what was happening to me. My entire nervous system felt like it had been dunked into a live current. Sparks were firing in every direction, invisible but undeniable, beneath my skin and in my skull and in the very air I breathed.
• And yet, all I could do was cling to him, bury myself deeper into his chest like it was the only thing tethering me to the now. The world around me, Rhalia’s gasps, the girls’ shouts, the scrape of someone’s heels against the marble, blurred and dulled. Like I was listening from underwater.