Chapter 385

Elara's POV

"Because you vanished," I said quietly. "Our parents died. And I was the only one left."

Even now, saying those words made my throat tighten.

Garrick and Olyra had carried so many hopes for us-hopes we never lived up to. Their greatest regret, before their final mission with the Steelmaw Recon Unit, was that neither their son nor their daughter had found a mate or started a family. So