LEO'S POV.
I stired awake slowly, the haze of unconsciousness still clinging to me as I fought to keep my eyes open and not fall back into the darkness. For a moment, the world around me felt distant, as if I were still trapped somewhere between reality and the darkness of my own mind. This was what it was like always. What I had to go through every single time I go into the dark shift. It wasn't just torture, it was pure agony. A horrible nightmare that I was forced to live and relive again and again and again, every single time. It isn't bad enough that I'm a slave to the curse. It isn't bad enough that I keep killing off my pack members, the same people I swore to protect, each time I turn. The pain, the trauma that comes with it, both physical and psychological... The bloodguilt every
