Two worlds that collide
She pulled him into the embrace, and for a moment, the three of them were a single unit of grief and survival.
"I'm sorry," Roman murmured against Vivienne’s temple, his voice thick with a rare, devastating emotion. "I should have been faster. I should have protected both of you."
Vivienne pulled back just enough to look him in the eye, her face streaked with salt and mascara, her eyes red-rimmed but fiercely alive. "You came back from the dead for me, Roman. You tore the sea apart."
She looked around the hangar—at Silas, who was wiping his glasses with a shaking hand; at Mario, who stood guard like a silent sentinel; and back at Chloe, her only true family.
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