The Bond, the Breath, and the BeginningThe world came back to Lena slowly, like a lantern flickering to life in a room long drowned in darkness.At first, there was only warmth.Not feverish heat, not curse burn, not the searing agony that had torn through her body moments before this warmth was soft, steady, and strangely familiar. It wrapped around her like a cloak, like a promise whispered from another lifetime.Then came the scentcedarwood, rain, smoke.Damien.Her breath caught before she even opened her eyes.A shadow shifted beside her, tense but gentle, as if afraid to breathe too loudly. The air hummed with a quiet, anxious energy that could belong only to one man.“Lena…” His voice was barely a whisper, raw with fear and relief all tangled together. “Please… wake up.”She opened her eyes.Damien’s face hovered above hers pale, battered, but breathtakingly alive. His normally sharp, stoic expression was completely undone. His eyes held nights of grief and centuries of yearni
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