Chapter 52

Kaelen

The echo of her touch still burned against my scales.

She’d whispered it—you’re mine too—and for one blessed moment, it had silenced everything. The bond hummed between us like molten iron cooling in water, unbreakable, undeniable.

But then I saw it. The shimmer in the creek. The way her body bent, hand clamped over her mouth, the song nearly dragging itself out of her throat. She’d almost