Wrath and Obsession

Kaelen stared at his phone after ending the call, the silence in his office swelling until it felt like a physical weight pressing down on his chest. His fingers curled into a fist on the polished wood of his desk, nails digging into his skin until the pain anchored him back from the edge.

How had it come to this?

He had spent years building walls—fortresses of ice and steel — around his heart a