Chapter 54

*Kaelen*

The door clicked shut behind me with a finality I didn’t like. It sounded too much like goodbye. Too much like loss.

I stood there in the small, dim infirmary room, my hand still on the handle, heart pounding in my chest like a war drum. She was curled in the bed beneath those sterile white sheets, her skin pale and glistening with sweat. The fever hadn’t broken. Her breaths came shallo