Chapter 83

KALEN

My body jolted awake, heart pounding inside of my chest. I felt really disoriented as my senses settled down.

It was just a nightmare…

I slowly untangled my limbs from Maddox’s and tiptoed into the bathroom so as to not wake him up.

The woman staring back at me in the mirror was someone that I barely recognized.

Dull eyes, bruising underneath my eyes from the lack of sleep. Nightmares had been hitting me anytime I fell asleep. I wondered if this was what Mom felt like when she was preparing to face Douchey Loki.

We have spent every single day of the past two weeks training hard and preparing for this war. Tomorrow was our last day before we headed out. It would be spent with our loved ones and our people. We had already trained as much as possible, so the best thing that we could do was to surround ourselves with the reminder of what we were fighting to protect.

Once the water was hot, I stepped into the shower. I tried to focus on the feeling of the warmth that was pounding down