#Chapter 189: My Wolf

Kayla Darkness gave way to… fog? I blinked, trying to focus, but the mist was so dense I could barely see my hand in front of my face. The pain in my abdomen was gone, replaced by an eerie numbness. I was no longer being cradled against Noah’s chest, but rather standing somewhere… new. This wasn’t the Nightshade estate. This wasn’t the hospital. This was… somewhere else entirely. I was standing in the middle of a forest, surrounded by towering trees whose tops disappeared into the swirling mist above. No sounds of the Revelry reached me here—no drums, no laughter, no howls. Just silence. Was I dead? “Hello?” I called, my voice sounding strange and muffled in the dense fog. “Is anyone there?” For a long moment, there was no response, and I began to panic. I was dead. I had to be. But then, faintly, I heard something. “Follow my voice… Hurry!” I froze, my heart stuttering in my chest. That voice—I knew that voice. I couldn’t p