I Married My Mate's Enemy
“Good. Because I don’t plan on letting go anytime soon.”
We sat in companionable silence for a while, watching shadows stretch across the valley floor. The moonlight made the contours of the cliffs look ethereal, and the trees whispered faintly in the wind. It was peaceful, almost unreal after the chaos of the vault, and I let myself imagine a moment of normalcy—something almost like home.
Then Bastion’s voice broke the quiet. “Lana, Kael… look at this.”
I turned to see him holding a small crystal shard, unlike the ones in the vault. It was dark, smoky, but faint veins of red light pulsed within it. I felt the resonance immediately, like a distant heartbeat echoing in my chest.
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