CHAPTER 13: FINAL WORDS

DAISY

I woke up to the taste of something powerful on my tongue.

It was nothing like I had ever tasted before. So blunt and strong, like blood but the taste was amplified. My eyes fluttered open, and I realised that I had been clenching down on my teeth and that perhaps my gums had started to bleed. I eased my jaw as I started to feel conscious of the place where I was. In my room, with my body facing up. I had fainted, once again. I did not remember fainting like this all the time, but I guess it was because of the pregnancy.

I was still using my body and overworking it the way I used to before. I needed to stop doing that. I did not want to rely on them finding me all the time when I was unconscious. How they had all known that I was hurt and had come to my aid immediately was beyond me.

“She is up.” Someone said beside me, and it did not take me two guesses to realize that it was Declan. I remembered how I treated him the last time that he was here and how he was still here for