Chapter 142

Maren

I didn’t expect fire to make me feel like this.

Heat, yes. Awe, definitely. A strange sense of belonging, maybe.

But this?

This is… distracting.

Kaelen moves through the firehouse like he was built for it. Not just because he is fire—though that’s part of it—but because everything here seems to know him. The concrete, the steel, the engines, the controlled burn pit. He checks gauges with eas