THE DUKE'S FORBIDDEN PROPHECY
Between us, stretched on cold sheets, rests the man who once ruled everything, now counting time by uneven pulses.
Time drags slow. Fire crackles, a rasping hum lives in the King’s throat, while Lysander exhales quiet, lost in sleep.
One final time, the King opens his eyes. Clear they are, sharp with understanding. Not toward Noah does he turn, instead fixes his gaze on me.
“He loves you,” the King says, the words suddenly strong, lucid. “It is written… in every line of him. It is his strength… and his greatest vulnerability. Guard it.”
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