Chapter 233

Elora

“Where is she?”

My voice cracked against the hollow chamber, raw and frantic, though I already knew the answer. The air was too still. The cradle too empty. The bond inside me—a constant thread of flame—felt stretched thin, almost translucent. Solene was gone.

Kaelen was already tearing through the room, his hands sweeping aside every blanket, every charm, every mark we’d laid down to keep h