Chapter 37 Fractured Bonds

The darkness was suffocating. Kai’s body felt like lead as he struggled to breathe, his chest tight, his mind a mess of broken thoughts. The air around him was thick with an electric charge, the remnants of Lila’s uncontrollable power still swirling in the atmosphere like a storm waiting to burst. His heart raced, his pulse a drumbeat in his ears, but the silence followed was deafening. The world was still. Too still.