Chapter 53

Maren

I stayed outside after touching Kaelen’s dragon, because my legs didn’t feel like they belonged to me anymore. My knees wobbled, my skin burned, and my heart hadn’t stopped racing since I laid my hand against his scales.

He was fire. He was danger. He was mine.

And for one dizzy moment, I hadn’t cared about anything else.

But the second he shifted back, the song in my chest had gone quiet—to