Worth Fighting For

There was a strange kind of silence that came after a storm—the kind that didn’t feel like peace, but pause. A breath held. A war waiting to resume.

And Kaelen sat in it now.

Lyra’s message still burned in his chest like a brand, soft and disarming. Too gentle for the kind of man he was. Too honest for the world he lived in.

But it had reached him. Somehow.

And that scared him more than he’d ev