Chapter 100

The morning after the ritual was quiet.

Too quiet.

The kind of quiet that seeped into your bones and made you question if the world was waiting to exhale.

Kaia woke slowly, her body aching as though she’d been in battle. In many ways, she had. As her eyes adjusted to the soft light streaming through the window, the events of the night before rushed back—pain, fear, Ryker’s voice, her refusal to le