Chapter 40 Still Mine

KAELITH

I turned around and saw the only man I have ever loved standing before me. However, the safety I once felt in his presence had now been replaced by a twinge of fear, and the butterflies in my stomach that once soared with giddiness now felt more akin to dread.

"Kaelith," he said my name in the same way he always had, yet his tone starkly contrasted with our last two encounters.

We were al