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Chapter Seventy-One: The First Healing

Author: Penelope Blue
last update publish date: 2026-02-23 23:12:15

Elena did not wait for morning. She was already out of bed when the first pale light touched the sky. Damien caught her wrist before she reached the door.

“You’re going down there,” he said.

It wasn’t a question, and she didn’t deny it.

“He asked me for help.”

Damien’s jaw tightened—not in anger but in fear. He was trying very hard not to let it control him.

“Elena,” he said carefully, “if you reached him in a dream, Peter felt it too.”

“I know.”

That was the problem. She wasn’t shaken. She was
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