The Loveless Pact

Lyra exhaled shakily, letting the words settle in her bones. But the silence that followed was heavy, pressing in from all sides. Kaelen’s shoulders rose and fell, each breath jagged, as if the memories clawing at him refused to stay buried.

He exhaled again, a harsher, broken sound.

“Grief. Anger. Guilt.” His jaw tightened, voice dropping into a low growl. “For two years, those three consumed me