Chapter 39 The Price Of Redemption

The world was silent, the oppressive quiet that made Kai’s pulse thrum in his ears. His breath, shallow and jagged, echoed in the stillness of the night as he moved through the forest. The moon above had faded into the shadow of clouds, and the stars were obscured, like the heavens had turned their gaze away from the disaster unfolding below. Lila was lost. And Kai, no matter how hard he tried to grasp at the fleeting fragments of hope, knew she was slipping further away from him, from everything they had once been.