Chapter 214

Elodie’s POV

The drive home was silent, but it wasn't the peaceful kind.

It was the heavy, pressurized silence of a storm cell moving in.

Kiernan sat in the passenger seat, his jaw clamped shut so tight I could see the muscles twitching in his cheek.

His scent had changed—it was no longer the warm, comforting forest of pine and rain. Now, it was sharp ozone and cold iron.

He was vibrating with