Chapter 15 THE MORNING AFTER FOREVER

Sunlight spilled through the window, slanting golden and soft across the rumpled sheets.

Zara stirred first, her body sore in all the right ways, her heart floating somewhere between disbelief and awe.

She blinked slowly, taking in the familiar space that now somehow felt different. Warmer. Safer.

And beside her, Jace-on his stomach, one arm