Chapter 79

Kaelia

I pressed the tips of my fingers against my temples, massaging gently, trying to calm the heat crawling beneath my skin. My elbow rested on the table while my fingers drummed against the wood in an uneven rhythm, anything to distract myself from the fact that my body was betraying me.

The rhythm sounded like the pacing of a caged beast. Because that’s what I was.

A doomed, cornered, irrit