One Night Stand With My Boyfriend’s Twin
The fire may have cleansed one betrayal, but the roots beneath it were still rotting.
She sat alone on the edge of the camp, elbows on her knees, staring into the charred ring where Deron's ashes had once lived. The soil still smoked in patches, as if reluctant to let go of the truth it had swallowed.
A soft crunch of leaves pulled her head up.
Mitchell approached slowly, her steps uncharacteristically hesitant. She had discarded her ceremonial robes and now wore plain black, loose, dark, unmarked. Her hair was tied back, and her face held the kind of tension only time could forge.
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