The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna
The sun had dropped behind the hills across the river, and the light came in low and warm, catching on a thousand windows at once, and one by one, the streetlights were waking up beneath it all.
I had watched this city from a hundred windows over the past decade. Offices, the house on the hill, the kitchen table at two in the morning with my mother’s chamomile tea between my hands. It had never looked more beautiful than it did tonight. Or maybe it just looked that way because I was leaving.