MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Fifty Nine — One Year
The walk back to Ironveil took twenty minutes.
Nobody spoke for most of it.
Not because there was nothing to say.
Because there was too much.
One year.
The words sat in Mara's chest alongside the bond and her wolf and her mother's file and everything else she carried.
One year of the second phase moving continuously through sixty three territories.
One year of truth visible and impossible to look away from.
One year.
And then completion.
And then whatever came after.
She breathed.
Caius broke the silence first.
Quietly. Just for her.
"One year," he said.
"Yes," she said.
"That is manageable," he said.
"Yes," she said.
He was quiet for a moment.
"Are you okay," he said.
She looked at him.
At the grey eyes watching h
