Chapter 31

Kaelen

Sleep had never come easy for me. Too many years of training myself to rest light, to be ready at the crack of a twig or the scent of smoke. But tonight, when I finally stretched out on my bunk, it wasn’t discipline that kept me awake.

It was her.

Maren.

I’d flown, I’d let the dragon out, I’d soared higher than the city lights could reach. It should’ve calmed me. Usually, it did. But all I