Caught In Between Lust And Desires Book 2
We rode in silence after that, the forest looming darker and thicker around us with every passing mile, until finally the trees broke apart entirely, revealing the scorched, skeletal remains of the old palace rising up against the night sky like a wound that had never properly healed.
And there, standing alone in the center of the ruins, both hands still burning with steady, golden fire, was Victor.
He wasn't fighting anything. Wasn't running from anything. He simply stood there, motionless, staring up at the broken remains of a throne room that had once been his entire world, tears streaming silently down a face lit gold by his own flames.
"Victor!" Jayden's voice cracked as he threw himsel