The sound of his heartbeat was fading.One second, it was there faint but steady beneath my trembling hands.The next, it faltered, lost beneath the hiss of flames and the distant thunder of collapsing stone.“Caelum, stay with me,” I whispered, my voice raw from smoke and tears. “Please just stay.”He didn’t answer.Blood pooled beneath us, thick and dark against the cold concrete. My fingers pressed against the wound, desperate, useless. The world had narrowed to this my heartbeat pounding in my ears, the acrid smell of gunpowder, and the man who had once seemed untouchable now breaking apart in my arms.“Don’t you dare leave me,” I choked out. “Not like this. Not after everything.”His lashes fluttered. A ghost of a breath left his lips.“Saphira…”My name on his tongue was a dying ember, soft and ruined, but it burned all the same.Then he went still.Something in me fractured.For a heartbeat, I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t think. Couldn’t feel anything except the weight of him, th
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