A Farewell in the Dark

I rolled the passenger window down an inch, letting the raw night air sting my cheek. Anything was better than the suffocating quiet inside the sedan. Kaelen drove with both hands locked on the leather steering wheel, his jaw set in stone. He had not spoken a single word to me since signing my discharge paperwork.

My temple still throbbed with a dull ache from the concussion, each bump in the as