It felt like my head was being repeatedly hit by a hammer. I have never experienced anything like this in all my twenty seven years of living.

It was fucking terrible.

A groan tore through my mouth as I gripped my hair tighter like that would somehow stop the pain.

My head felt like my brain was melting—like every vein in my brain was folding. But then I heard a voice that felt like an anchor in the pain.

“Xander! Xander!" I blinked, my eyes coming back to focus as my eyes met Raven's panicked ones.

I was breathing hard as I looked at her and for a moment everything...