It’s not what you think.
Laya didn’t sleep, not really. She spent the night tangled in her sheets, limbs heavy and restless, her mind endlessly circling back to the chapel and Cybil Ashcroft’s voice: smooth, composed, and razor sharp beneath its warmth.
“Is it worse than watching everything fall apart for the both of us?”
The words slithered into her thoughts like a vine wrapping around the trunk of a dying tree: quiet, steady, and unshakable.
The very idea of marrying a man on the verge of death, one she barely knew, was grotesque in theory: cold, calculated, transactional — everything she had never been.
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