LILA

I'm over the moon. Why?

Because Rafael granted me the one thing I asked for, he released her.

And that alone feels like a weight lifted. He's already juggling a thousand things, Pack affairs, meetings with the Seers, searching for a way to break this curse that's slowly bleeding me from the inside, and still, he did this for me. For us.

Nicklaus has been a rock too, He's been cracking skulls diving headfirst into decoding the damn tattoo marking and figuring out what the hell it means for Ava and whatever bigger picture we're all tangled in. I know he's spread thin, but he hasn't once complained. And...