In His Ruins
He captured her lips in a slow, deep, and unhurried kiss that tasted of winter air, woodsmoke, and a lifetime of hard-won certainty.
Outside, the snow continued to fall in soft, thick flakes, blanketing the mountain ridge in a pristine, unbroken blanket of white. But inside, wrapped in the unbreakable warmth of the cabin and the fierce, enduring love they had forged against every obstacle, their world was complete. They had survived the winter, conquered the storm, and built a sanctuary that nothing in this world could ever touch.