A Promise of Home

Talia POV The Next Morning

By the time we reached Valerius's cabin the next day, Lucius looked nothing like the man I'd watched collapse after the curse left him. The sun was already up and I stopped at the entrance and stared at the place that had once been nothing more than broken walls, rotten boards, and memories.

Now it stood completely restored, sturdy and warm, with fresh wood beneath my fi