I shifted, wincing as my body protested, but I fought through the pain. My fingers brushed the damp towel Giulia had abandoned in her lap, and I gripped it, squeezing it between my fingers.
"They think I am nothing now," I murmured, my voice steadier than it had been since I woke. "But they will soon learn… there is nothing more dangerous than something they tried to kill but failed."
I would return. Not as the girl they knew. Not as the battered, pathetic Omega they had left for dead.
No.
I would return as the ghost that haunted them. As the shadow that slithered through their nightmares, the whisper in the dark that made their hearts seize with terror.
I would make Rosa suffer first. I would watch as everything she loved turned to ash in her hands. I would take her happiness piece by piece, rip it from her just as she ripped my life away from me.
And Axel…
Oh, Axel.
