Chapter 71

Chapter 71: Chapter 71

Kaelen’s POV

The door closed behind Finnian, and the silence that followed was different from the kind I was used to. Not the silence of empty throne rooms or war councils waiting for orders. This was warm. Lived-in. Full of the faint creak of old floorboards and the distant clatter of neighbors below and the small, contented sounds of a child at play.

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