Aria’s chest heaved, sweat clinging to her skin as though she had run for miles. The phantom image of Kael’s blood on her hands wouldn’t wash away. Even as she rubbed her palms hard against her blanket, she still felt it, warm, sticky, damning.Her breath came uneven, her throat raw with unshed screams. She pressed her fist against her mouth, but it didn’t muffle the sob that ripped free.She had killed him.Not in reality, but the dream had been so vivid, so searing, that her body shook with the echo of it. The weight of the sword. The look in his eyes, not anger, not resistance, but a quiet surrender that tore her heart in two.Acceptance.Her bond pulsed violently in her chest, an echo of Kael even though he wasn’t beside her. She clutched it like a lifeline, desperate for the steady thunder of his heartbeat to prove she hadn’t truly destroyed him.But the fire within her didn’t calm. It burned hotter, wilder, as though the dream had stoked it into a frenzy.She staggered out of th
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