Love does not conquer all by force. It conquers by endurance. By staying when everything else leaves. By choosing gentleness in a world addicted to hardness. By surviving the fire and emerging—not untouched, but transformed. For Lala and Daniel, love was no longer a question mark hanging over their lives. It was the ground beneath their feet. The Aftermath of the Storm Peace arrived quietly. Not the absence of problems— but the absence of fear controlling them. Lala noticed it first in the way her chest no longer tightened when Daniel was silent. Silence was no longer a threat. It was simply space. She had learned the difference. Daniel noticed it in the way he no longer flinched when others disagreed with his choices. Disapproval no longer dismantled him. He had stopped measur

