Chapter 182

Kaelen

I’ve carried people out of burning buildings.

I’ve pulled strangers from wrecked cars, soot-black and bleeding, their lives balanced on whatever thin thread they had left. I’ve been calm in rooms full of screaming. I’ve made decisions with seconds to spare and heat licking the back of my neck.

None of that prepared me for sitting in a stone room in the dragon realm, listening to Maren breat