Chapter 357: Agreement

Chapter 357: Agreement

Katrina~

I never knew what pain truly was until that night. In all my eighteen years, I’d been shielded from it like a fragile artifact in my family’s royal vault. Mom—Queen Natalie, the Celestial Princess—had always been there with her glowing hands, mending any scrape or ache before it could take root. Grandma, the Moon Goddess herself, would descend from her ethereal realm during her visits, her silver light wrapping around Alex and me like a warm blanket. She’d teach us how to channel celestial energy, how to weave threads of light to heal wounds or soothe fevers. Alex, my big brother, wasn’t born with the gift, but Grandma had given him a piece of it anyway—like a secret inheritance only she could bestow. He carried it proudly, though Mom’s powers eclipsed ours; she could banish any illness, any shadow of suffering, with a mere touch. Pain was a myth to me, something I read about in books or heard from the palace guards, maids and everyone in general. But when Vincent— this enigmatic stranger who’d crashed into my world like a storm, my mate—ran away, dragging Winter with him, pain, the same one I always heard about, hit me like a thunderbolt straight to the soul.

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