Chapter 6: The Breaking Point

The headache started before I even stepped into class.

It was sharp, curling at the base of my skull and pressing behind my eyes—an unnatural, crawling sensation that I didn’t recognize.

At first, I thought it was exhaustion. A side effect of too many bruises, too m

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By the time the final bell rang, my headache had faded into a dull, lingering ache. But the uneasy feeling in my stomach hadn’t.

I kept my head down as I walked through the halls, avoiding eye contact, silently praying I could make it outside without—

A hand snatched

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The silence was suffocating.

The moment the triplets stepped forward, the entire hallway froze.

A ripple of awareness shuddered through the crowd, like prey instinctively sensing a predator. Or three.

The air thickened, weighted with something dark, electric—somethi