Chapter 108

Maren

The forest still hummed from whatever had shifted in the leyline, but the air between Kaelen and me…

that was the part that felt different now.

Not just charged — alive.

We left the cliff after that eerie howl dissolved into the wind. Kaelen walked half a step behind me, quiet in a way that wasn’t truly quiet. The bond thrummed between us with every breath, low and insistent, tugging at the