Chapter 67

*Kaelen*

Pain was easy.

It didn’t ask questions. It didn’t demand explanations. It didn’t stare back at me with wide eyes full of fear and faith and ask, Can you really protect me?

Pain just came.

And right now, I welcomed it.

My fist connected with the padded target again, and again, and again, the sharp crack echoing through the training dome like a metronome set to rage. The instructor sta