Chapter 120

*Varis*

Some losses happen all at once.

Others bleed slowly, like watching a flame you once held drift out of reach.

Losing Elora to the prophecy was one thing. It was dramatic, tragic, almost poetic—watching her rise into something untouchable. But losing her to Kaelen? That wasn’t myth. That was human. And it hurt like hell.

I watched them now—her and Vandar—moving around each other like they’d