Chapter 39 The Moment I Stopped Asking For Permission
- I woke up choking.
- Not on air. On heat. On that thick, electric pressure that crawled under my skin and wrapped around my ribs like it had been waiting for me to open my eyes. My heart slammed hard enough to hurt. For one panicked second I thought the sky had torn again. Thought the cut had come back wider. Hungrier.
- It hadn’t.