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Liam POV

When I woke from the spell Star put me under I saw Riley thrashing on the table. I never felt so powerless in my life watching her scream silently in pain.

I felt my body lifted in the air and my inside tear apart. It hurt, but I knew it wasn’t anything like what Riley was going through. The second I felt power seep out of my pores and into hers, my body fell limp to the ground. Everything went black after that. I just laid defenseless on the floor and drifted away.

“Liam, wake up.” Jax’s strained voice was close to me. He was worried. I felt his hand caress my cheek, then a sting from him slapping me.

“Fuck!” I shouted, jumping to sit up on the couch.

“Finally! We need to move.” Jax stood, walking to a little table and grabbed clothes to throw at me. “Get changed.”

My hands grabbed at my chest. I felt sore! I never felt muscle pain like this before. I was incredibly tired too, like I haven’t slept in weeks.

“Where’s Riley?” I asked exhausted. Just speaking those few words to