C5 FIVE

I could hear his voice in my head. Not because we were connected anymore—he’d severed that when he rejected me—but because it was Kane. His words were always there, like some sick, haunting echo I couldn’t shut out. "Ten..."

I scrambled to get up through the waves of pain crashing through, only to end up collapsing on my butt once again. Sobs wracked through me. Liquid poured from my nostrils