Chapter 128

Maren

The moment Zarek lunges, something inside me snaps into perfect, terrifying clarity.

There’s no time to think.

No time to wonder what I am or what I can do.

Only now.

Fire tears through the air toward us, hot enough that my skin prickles before it reaches me. Kaelen roars beside me as his dragon surges forward, wings snapping open, scales flashing gold and red as he throws himself into the p