Chapter 127

Kaelen

He freezes.

Zarek—my brother, the monster I’ve fought my whole life, the heir who thought destiny belonged to him alone—stops dead in his tracks at the sight of her.

Fire rolls behind him in waves, eating through trees, lighting the forest in jagged, violent orange. Smoke coils through the branches overhead. Sparks land on his shoulders, his half-shifted wings flaring, veins glowing molten