At that exact moment, Brando was one hundred percent certain, Solenne was just like him. She'd been reborn too, carrying every single memory of their past life with her.
No wonder, for the past several days, no matter how much he'd lowered his pride and showered her with gentle, thoughtful gestures, she'd kept her distance, icy and completely unresponsive.
When he thought about it, it made perfect sense. If you'd lived through soul-crushing despair, watched your entire family get torn apart and your whole world burn to ash, how on earth would you ever open your heart again to the person who'd betrayed you? How could you just forgive and forget, like none of it ever happened?
All her coldness, all her resistance, all the walls she'd put up between them, suddenly, it all had an explanatio
