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Chapter 22 – Where She Said Goodbye

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last update Last Updated: 2025-07-13 04:55:39

The First Lands had changed. Once a field of gold and dusk-lit stone, it was now cracked earth and weeping sky, haunted by the weight of forgotten promises. Aria rode alone. No guards. No advisors.

Only the pendant in her hand, a fragment of her first heartbreak, and the only proof that the message scrawled in blood belonged to him. Rhydan. Her first love. Her first loss. The one she buried with her own hands.

The wind whispered as she dismounted. “Where you said goodbye,” the message had said. And there it was the cliff. A jagged edge above the sea, where they’d carved their names into rock and kissed beneath a blood moon, years before Kaelen. Years before war.

She approached slowly. And saw him. Back turned, hair tousled by the wind, cloak dark against the light. Her heart clenched. “Rhydan?” she whispered. He turned.

Same eyes. Same crooked smile. Only now… they were empty. “I missed you,” he said softly.

Her blade was at his throat before he could speak again. “You’re not him.”

“I
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