XAVIER’S POV “One year,” I said quietly as I stood on the balcony and looked over the city, the early morning light slowly spreading across the buildings. “It's been one entire year since we stood in that garden and promised to choose each other every day.” I smiled at the thought because so much had changed during those twelve months. The chaos that once surrounded our lives had finally become something distant, almost like a story that belonged to another version of us. There were no investigators waiting outside the house, no lawyers arriving with another emergency and no phone calls warning me that someone had discovered another hidden account. Instead, our mornings had become ordinary. Sometimes I woke before Aurora and found her asleep beside me, completely unaware that I was watching her. Other mornings, she was already awake, sitting near the window with her laptop while pretending she wasn't working before breakfast. We argued about schedules, forgot where we left our key
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