This chapter is dedicated to italma_rios. It's a new month. Thank you for carrying me through last month. I really appreciate your presence here. 🫂💜
You have become such a warm part of this journey for me. Your presence is comforting, encouraging, and genuinely refreshing in a way words can barely explain. It feels like having someone quietly cheering beside me while I build this world chapter by chapter.
Thank you for loving these characters.
Thank you for staying through the tension, the pain, the slow burns, and the chaos.
Thank you for being patient with me, even if you think the storyline is slow. 🫂✨️
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Aire stood before one of the taller shelves in the library. Her fingers trailing lightly along the spines of books arranged in careful rows.
The scent of leather, dust, and ink settled around her in familiarity, and steadiness. It grounded her.
Her gaze moved slowly, reading titles without fully seeing them. Her mind was not entirely present.
