Chapter 234 — Running Out Of Time!

Sleep had long deserted me.

The darkness of the room slowly faded into shades of gray as the night dragged toward morning, but my eyes never closed. I lay on my back beside Julian, staring at the faint mark on my wrist as if it might disappear if I blinked long enough.

It didn’t.

At first it had looked like nothing more than a shadow against my skin, a strange pattern I could almost convince myself I imagined. But the longer I stared at it, the more ...