Chapter 195

* Elora*

I didn’t remember standing. Didn’t remember walking. Just the sudden shift in air and the way the heat curled its fingers around me like it knew my name.

Fire didn’t scare me anymore.

What scared me was the silence that came with it.

Not the kind that settled over a room, or even the quiet between two people trying not to say what they meant. This silence was bigger. Hungrier. It swallowe