Chapter 52

*Kaelen*

“I won’t let you die,” I said, even though my voice barely made it above a whisper.

Even though the truth of those words felt paper-thin in the face of the way she looked—too pale, too still, her breaths shallow, broken by soft whimpers of pain.

Her lips parted slightly like she wanted to speak again, to ask me for a second time if she was dying, but sleep pulled at her faster than her mi