WREN’S POVThe celebration was still going strong behind us, music and laughter drifting across Black Diamond’s grounds but Ronan had pulled me quietly toward the treeline sometime after midnight, his hand warm around mine, something purposeful in his expression that made curiosity outweigh my exhaustion.“Where are we going?” I asked, my emerald dress still trailing slightly against the grass. “Somewhere private,” he said, glancing back at me with that particular gold-eyed intensity that still made my breath catch even after everything we’d survived to reach this exact night. “I want to show you something.”We walked until the celebration faded into distant murmur, until the trees opened into a small moonlit clearing that felt private in the particular way only deep woods managed, soft grass and silver light filtering down through the canopy above.“I’ve been thinking,” he said turning to face me fully, “about something I haven’t gotten to do yet. Something that matters to me more t
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