Chapter 33 – She Kisses Me Like Fire
The Afterburn of Fear
Sleep did not come easily after Kaelen’s confession.
Seren lay beneath the furs, eyes wide open, her heart replaying the Alpha’s words over and over.
I saw you die.
The rawness in his voice had unsettled her more than the warning itself. Kaelen was never soft, never uncertain. Yet in that moment he had looked at her not as Alpha, not even as wolf, but as a man terrified of losing something he couldn’t bear to name.
Seren touched her chest where his gaze had lingered. She had thought herself prepared for fear, for rejection, for hatred. But not this. Not to be the center of someone else’s nightmare.
She closed her eyes, but the dream she had not seen still lingered in her mind — Lucien’s teeth, her own scream, Kaelen too far
