Lorien POV

Doctor Drevan’s power was water.

I could feel it coursing through me sliding beneath my skin, curling through my veins, pulsing through my organs like a living tide. The longer it lingered, the tighter my stomach twisted, the more suffocated I felt by the weight of her intrusion.

I hadn’t asked for this. I hadn’t even given consent. Yet she acted as though she had every right to sift through me, as though my body was hers to explore. It didn’t feel like a medical ...