Chapter 123Viona's POV

The door clicked softly behind me, but I didn't move.

I had told him I was leaving. I had meant it when the word left my mouth. But as I stood in the hallway, my pulse hammering, something inside me refused to obey. My hand gripped the doorframe, nails digging into the wood. My body refused to carry me away.

And then I heard it.

The sound wasn't human. It was too low, too guttural, vibrating with a hunger I didn't understand. The kind of sound an animal made when it ...