Chapter 149: The Phoenix

Calla’s POV

The smoke was thick enough to taste in my mouth.

I kept low over Vaughn’s back, hands fisted in the fur at his shoulders, my face turned sideways against the heat rolling in from the flames. The fire had spread further than I realized; on either side of us the undergrowth was going up in thick gray and red curtains, and the air tasted of charred wood and singed hair and under it, the s