His Rejected Mate's Secret
The bond still throbbed faintly beneath my heart, no longer sharp with rejection, but quiet, aching, searching.
Lyra slowed as we reached the heart of the valley, where the air turned colder, sharper, charged. “There,” she said, pointing through the thinning fog.
A pool of light waited ahead.
The Whispering Spring.
Even from here, I could see it shimmer with its own moonlight, water glowing as if it remembered every prayer ever whispered into it. The mist around it pulsed faintly, rising and falling like breath.
“It feels… alive,” I whispered.
Lyra nodded. “It is. The Moon herself blessed this place. The spring listens. It remembers. Some say it sees.”