brave

Chapter 10

A year later.

We stood together in the garden. Under the stars.

Eleanor held my hand. She wore her silver bracelet. I wore my charm. Our wrists pressed together.

Two stars. Side by side.

"They thought they could keep us apart," she said. "They thought they could break us."

"They forgot about the stars," I said.

She smiled, tears glistening.

"They forgot that love leaves a mark. One that can never be erased."

She placed a hand on my shoulder.

"You are my greatest blessing, Stella. My daughter. My heir. And my home."

I hugged her close.

Twenty years lost.

Twenty years stolen.

But in the end... the stars had led me home.

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And nothing—no one—would ever take me away again.

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