BOUND TO THE BLOOD KING
And when their hands finally met, it was not flesh that met flesh but memory and love, entwined.
The ruin of their empire lay around them, but the silence was beautiful, sacred, even. The ghosts had gone quiet. The fire had gentled. There were only them.
Matteo lifted her hand and pressed his lips to her knuckles. “The war’s done,” he said softly. “You can rest now.”
Bianca looked up at the sky pale blue deepening toward gold. “No,” she whispered. “We rest together.”
For a long time, they said nothing. Only the wind spoke moving through the hollow corridors, stirring the ashes into small spirals of light. And as it moved, it carried with it something unseen the pulse of their story, the echo
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