The next two days, Kieran didn't come home.On the third day, I saw him at Isabella's birthday party. He wore a noble black wolf-fur robe, tenderly pushing her wheelchair. She was wrapped in thick snow-beast fur blankets, pale as parchment, so fragile she seemed ready to dissolve into moonlight.The slightest furrow of her brow had Kieran immediately bending to whisper in her ear, concern radiating from every line of his body.I couldn't help the bitter smile that curved my lips. He kept claiming this was all an act, but his devoted gaze was exactly the same as four years ago. My father stood at the altar, tears glistening: "My daughter has been both unfortunate and blessed. Though her life has been tragically short, she has loving family and a devoted partner who never abandoned her..."The massive projection stone flickered, casting Isabella's life story across the night sky: her as a child learning to channel moonlight, her coming-of-age ceremony, her wedding to Kieran a few days a
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