Twice His Wife
The child sat on the counter beside the sink, legs swinging, watching Julien with the kind of unblinking focus only children could hold.
Julien’s gaze kept flicking between them all, never resting too long. He was thinner, his skin an uneven mix of pale and wind-burnt, his movements slower than she remembered. And yet his presence—God, his presence was exactly as it had been before the fire, before the noise, before they’d all been certain he’d died somewhere no one could reach.
Finally, Cassian broke the silence.
“You should be dead.”
Julien didn’t smile. He didn’t flinch. “I should be,” he said, his voice low but steady. “But I’m not.”
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