51. Ice and Flame

He had walked away. Gods, he had.The door still quivered on broken hinges behind him, groaning from the force of his retreat. But no distance was enough. Not when her scent still clung to his skin like smoke. Not when her voice still echoed inside his skull. Not when the taste of her name still sat like fire on his tongue.She was in his lungs. His blood.His bones.He paced the corridor outside his chambers, each step a battle between instinct and restraint. His hand scrubbed down his face, rough with sweat and desperation. His heart slammed against his ribs like a caged thing, wild, panicked, howling for release.He had told himself to stay away.He had promised her.But gods help him, he could still feel her. The soft, ragged breath she’d made when he’d turned from her. The way her body had bowed in the chains—not with fear, but with a craving so raw it scraped at the very walls of his soul.And beneath the heat, beneath the magic, there had been pain.Not physical.Not hormonal.

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52. Morning

When she woke, the world was hushed.A thick, muffled stillness blanketed the room, like the silence after a storm. Soft light filtered in through the balcony curtains, turning the air silver and cold. Freya lay motionless, cocooned in a tangle of sheets that smelled of pine, steel… and him.Ragnar.The scent clung to her skin. Her breath caught before she even opened her eyes.The ache in her body wasn’t just from the night before; it was deeper. Lingering. As though something sacred had been taken from her… or given. Her muscles throbbed with a slow, aching soreness, not from pain but from the way her limbs had curled so tightly around someone she didn’t know how to let go of.The bed was large. And empty.He was gone.Her eyes opened slowly, lashes brushing against damp skin. She blinked up at the ceiling, and for a long moment, she couldn’t move. Her body refused to rise. Not because of weakness, but because she was afraid.Afraid that if she moved, she’d lose the fragile remnants

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51. Ice and Flame

52. Morning