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Chapter 77 – When Silence Speaks

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Sunlight pouring through Elara's lace curtains bathed the little cottage in its warm light. The fire in the fireplace had burned down low, casting gentle glows on the walls. Birds were just starting to wake outside their song and dew still clung to grass blades like tears lost to memory. But here, silence. Peace.

It was Adrian who first moved.

He stayed in her room, on the edge of her bed, hunched slightly into her warmth. Elara's shoulder against his, her breathing quiet and serene. He did not move for what felt like hours. He sat, mapping out each line of her face, every probing blink her eyelashes issued in sleep.

It should have been obtrusive. But it wasn't.

And here, in the serene bubble of her world, something unexpressed developed in him. A kind of quiet he'd never known before. He'd always believed love to be passion, turmoil, flame. But here—love was a gentle breath. A solace. A strand that bound two hearts gently, without pressure.

He shut his eyes again—not so he could slee
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