C13 Chapter Thirteen: Do You Think I'm Dumb

Selene’s POV

The silence in my room was suffocating.

I tossed to the left, then the right, then back again—like a pendulum swinging between frustration and exhaustion. But sleep? Sleep was a cruel mistress tonight. She flirted with my eyelids, then vanished, leaving me staring into the darkness like a prisoner haunted by the light she never got to reach.

My stomach growled angrily, a low