Kelani Pov
The morning sunlight crept across the stone floor and spilled into the room, casting a soft glow over the chaos of the previous night. The broken shards. The scent of blood. The lingering scent of darkness. It all felt like a dream but the weight of exhaustion anchoring my limbs reminded me it wasn’t.
My head rested on the edge of the bed, my arm folded awkwardly beneath my cheek. My body ached from the drain of channeling so much power. I had tried to heal him, to draw out the lingering remnants of dark energy lodged in his wound, and it had taken nearly everything I had.
Jayden lay silently on the bed, his powerful frame unmoving, but the steady rhythm of his breath let me know he was still with me. Still fighting. That, and the fact that I hadn’t let go of his hand all nig
