✨ Author’s Note ✨We’ve come a long way together, and I want to thank every single one of you for reading, supporting, commenting, and staying with this story 💙But this isn’t the end…This marks the beginning of Book 2, where new secrets will unfold, old wounds will return, loyalties will be tested, and not everyone will walk away unchanged.If you thought the journey ended here… think again.Welcome to the next chapter of this story. Chapter 153 begins a brand-new phase, and I can’t wait to take this journey with you.Thank you for being here 💙****** Eric's POV Steel collided hard enough to send vibrations up my arm. Elias recovered faster this time, which was an improvement. Last month he would've lost his weapon already. Progress. Not enough. He came from the left. Too much commitment. Too much force. I pivoted. His strike cut through empty air. Mistake. My blade struck his wrist. Wood slipped from his hand. Hit dirt. Before he could recover my t
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