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Vincent/Vaelthor/Star~
The room was still vibrating with the aftershock of our kiss—like the air itself hadn't yet decided whether to calm down or combust. Katrina still smelled faintly of wildflowers, that soft sweetness threading through the electric shimmer of her celestial light. It clung to my skin, settled in my lungs, and refused to let go. My heart was beating way too loud, like someone had handed a toddler a drum and told them to "go wild." I didn't remember our past, but in that moment, I didn't need to. Every thundering beat told me the same truth: she was mine. And somehow, impossibly, I was hers.
Katrina's fingers were warm as they laced with mine, grounding me even as everything else spun. Her blue eyes burned with that sharp, rebellious spark I'd already grown addicted to in my short, fractured existence. Nicholas leaned against the wall with that signature half-smirk of his—way too relaxed for someone who was definitely two seconds from panic—while Winter hovered nearby like a silent storm, her gaze darting between us with impossible precision. The vine-woven walls around us seemed to breathe, pulsing faintly as though the chamber itself sensed the shift in the air.
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