Chapter 15: Kiss in the void
They ended up on the roof of Kaelen’s building after midnight, neither of them able to sleep. Too much adrenaline. […]
They ended up on the roof of Kaelen’s building after midnight, neither of them able to sleep. Too much adrenaline. […]
The attack came during training. Liana and Kaelen were in the facility’s main arena, working through combat sequences with three
Kaelen was unconscious for eighteen hours. Liana stayed by his bed in the medical wing, watching his chest rise and
The alarms started at sunset. Liana was at Kaelen’s apartment—she’d been spending more nights there than her own place lately—when
The summons came three days later. Liana was in the middle of a training session—attempting to channel power through the
The nightmare yanked Liana out of sleep at 3 AM. Except it wasn’t her nightmare. She bolted upright in bed,
The bruise was spectacular. Liana examined it in the bathroom mirror—a purple-black bloom spreading across her ribs where she’d taken
The problem with the bond being open was that it didn’t close. Three days after the testing facility, Liana was
Morning came too soon. Liana woke on the couch, disoriented and stiff, to the smell of coffee and the sound
The safe house was bigger than it looked. The stairs led down into a network of rooms—old, stone-walled, lit by