ARIAThe room felt too small for the weight of everything pressing on my chest. Killian’s confession still echoed in my mind—raw, honest, and terrifyingly intimate. I stood by the window, arms wrapped around myself, trying to steady the storm inside me. Outside, the moon hung low, silver and soft… the opposite of what churned inside me.Footsteps sounded behind me, slow and deliberate. Only one man walked like that.“Aria,” Killian’s voice was low, careful, like he was approaching a wounded animal that might bolt.I didn’t turn. “You promised me you wouldn’t shut me out again.”“I’m not shutting you out,” he murmured, coming closer. “I’m standing right here.”His warmth reached me before his body did. His scent—cedar, smoke, the sharp touch of power—wrapped around me, threatening to break the last wall I was holding up.Everything had spiraled so quickly. The secrets. The threats. The enemies closing in. The revelation about the child… my child… and his wolf reacting the way it did. I
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