Chapter 67 – The Fracture Between Them
POV: Kael
By the time I was steady enough to walk without the room shifting under me, I had already made up my mind about one thing.
I wasn't waiting.
Not for the healers to clear me. Not for the elders to decide what came next. Not for anyone to tell me what I should or shouldn't do.
The pain was still there, sitting deep and sharp enough to remind me exactly how close it had been, but it wasn't enough to stop me. I had felt worse and kept moving. This wasn't any different.
What stayed with me wasn't the injury.
It was the bond.
Even now, it wasn't fully open, not the way it used to be, but it wasn't silent either. It sat there, restrained, controlled, like something both of us were holding back on purpose.
But earlier, right before everything went dark, I had felt it.
Just for a second. Just enough to know.
She had been there. She had felt it and she hadn't used it.
That was the only thing that mattered.
