All Chapters of The Forgotten Vow (MM Romance): Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

Leander POVThe storm hit after midnight.Rain hit the mountain resort so hard that the windows shook. Thunder boomed through the valleys like something huge waking beneath the earth. The lights flickered once, twice, before staying steady.Most of the resort had gone quiet hours ago. Employees were asleep behind doors after long days of workshops and getting tired from being in the mountains.I was still awake. Of course I was. Sleep has become unsafe lately. Every time I closed my eyes, something tried to come.I stood by the window watching rain hit the glass hard as lightning flashed against the mountains. The pressure behind my eyes had been building all evening. Not pain, more like heavy, gathering weather. The bond mark beneath my neck burned steadily under my skin. It was warm. It was like it was pulling me. Restless. Always toward him.Thunder cracked overhead, sharp and sudden.Then another piece hit…Rain on cobblestones, blood, and hands gripping my face while a voice said

Avelin POVThe morning came quietly after the storm. Outside the resort windows, the mountain looked clean, with silver mist hanging between the trees. The pale sunlight shone over the pine forest. Everything felt softer and calmer today, like the world had taken a breath.For a moment, I forgot where I was. Then I remembered everything. The storm. The fragments. Leander falling to his knees. I remembered it all. Pain stabbed through my chest.I sat up quickly on the sofa, and the blanket slipped into my lap. My pulse was racing. My hands were shaking.Leander remembered. Not just instincts, but everything.Three years of grief, waiting, and surviving felt like they were cracking open inside me. I thought I might fall apart.The chair near the window creaked softly. I looked up. Leander was already awake. He sat facing the mountain with one arm resting against the chair beside him. The morning light touched his face. He was wearing a dark sweater and loose trousers. His damp hair from

Leander POVI woke before the sun finished rising, and the first thing I did was check that he was still there.Not because I doubted it. I knew he was there. The bond told me, warm and steady beneath my skin, the crescent mark at my neck pulsing with the certainty of something that had finally stopped searching. But I looked anyway, the way you look at things that matter most, not from fear, just from the need to confirm with my own eyes what my body already knew. Avelin was exactly where he had been when we fell asleep, face pressed against my shoulder, one hand fisted in the front of my sweater. Both arms wrapped around my side with a grip that even sleep had not loosened.Clingy. The word arrived with a warmth that hit deep in my chest. In Cliffhaven, he had been this way. Not in front of others, never loudly, but in the quiet spaces, in the dark of the place above the ocean, in the mornings before the inn woke up. He had always found some part of me to hold onto. I used to cover h

Avelin POVThe city looked different as I came back into it. Maybe I was different. Three days in the mountains had stripped away some protective layer I had been wearing for too long, and now the city felt less like a place I was surviving and more like a place I was returning to. The bus rolled through familiar streets while late afternoon light caught the tops of buildings in gold. I sat with Leander's shoulder against mine, his hand covering mine in my lap, and thought about my son waiting at the end of this road.Shen. He was three years old, already the most important person in any room he entered. I had been away for three days, but it felt like three weeks. I missed him. The particular ache of a parent separated from their child for the first time was hard to bear, and everything that had happened in the mountains made it worse. My mind was crowded with fragments, a rainstorm, and returning memories. I wanted to see him. I needed to see him.I also needed Shen to see his papa

Leander POVThe call came at 8:30 in the morning.I was at my desk going over the week's schedule when my phone lit up with Avelin's name. The bond reacted before I even looked at the screen. It was sharp and urgent. The kind of pulse that meant something was wrong. Not physical pain. Fear. The kind of fear that moves through a mate bond fast. I answered before the second ring finished."Baby, " I said. My voice was already sharp. "What happened?"It wasn't a question. The bond told me something was wrong. Avelin's scent from far away had a quality of distress. He was controlled. I could sense it beneath the surface.His voice was steady when he spoke. Deliberately steady. "There is a note under the apartment door. Someone slid it through while I was putting Shen down for his nap."Every muscle in my body stopped moving. "Read it to me."There was a pause. Then quietly: "He remembers. So do I."The words hit my chest like something. Unsigned. One line. Meant to say: I am watching. I k