POV: Lucian Voss

It had been two full days since I last saw Siena. Two long, quiet days since I stood with my forehead resting gently against hers, and told her the one truth I still had left to give. That I wouldn’t make the same mistake again. That this time, I would do things differently. That I would fight for her—for us—with everything I had, even if I didn’t know what that future would look like.

Two days since she looked me in the eye and handed me something I never thought I would get from her again. A chance. A beginning. A future I wasn’t sure I had...