Chapter 157

Author POV

Kaia stepped forward alone.

Caleb reached for her—and stopped.

He felt it then. The shift. The quiet, terrifying certainty settling into her spine.

This was something only she could do.

Selena stood at the heart of the froststorm, hair lifting as raw power spiraled around her. The ground beneath her feet had turned glassy, cracked with veins of blue-white light. Every breath she took stole warmth from the world.

“You’re shaking,” Selena mocked, though her ...