Tristan’s POVI climbed the spiral stairs before dawn, heart pounding like a storm churning behind my ribs. The air inside the Frostreach Caverns was still, but I knew she was inside—isolated, wreathed in power I had helped shatter and rebuild.when she was just Reya, a headstrong girl with moonlight in her voice. We trained under the Blood Moon, her eyes alight with dreams of freedom. And yet, even then, I’d been torn between her and the empire I thought I protected.Now, the empire I protected was her.At the top, she stood beneath the cracked altar, silver hair loose, framed in moonlight—even before the dawn broke. Her presence made the air shift. She was wild. Beautiful. Broken.“I told you not to come,” she said, voice low, almost vulnerable. Vulnerable. I swallowed. That word split me open.“I never should’ve left you,” I said, stepping closer, boots echoing on stone. “Not after the twins. Not after…”She stiffened. “Then don’t speak of it.”I stopped. Almost wanted to run back
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