Chapter 530

Sebastian analyzed the consequences with painstaking care—but in all the scenarios he imagined, as long as Elara came through unscathed, he felt no fear, no regret.

Elara's chest tightened, a mixture of gratitude and anger rising in her. "What if you… if you get hurt while protecting me?"

Even imagining the possibility made her chest ache. She could still see the mountainside, the peril, the way h