Chasing Sunset

They say the best sunsets are the ones that you can't hold on to.

For Elara Vale, however, sunsets were a cruel reminder that certain things in life are meant to be forgotten.

She knew she'd spent too long holding on to hatred, to bitterness, to the lesson that some people are simply better off forgotten.

Like Kael Reyes. Arrogant, reckless, infuriating Kael Reyes, the one person Elara had spent the last of her life trying to forget.

Their families were bitter rivals, their bloodlines tangled in a feud as old as the city itself.

Every race, every fight, every bitter contest had bred only more hostility between their families, and Elara had spent her life being taught to hate the Reyes name.

And Kael had hated her. He'd grown up hearing stories of the Vales.

Never to trust a Vale, never to let one of them, specifically Elara, get close.

So, they'd spent years clashing, sparring with everything they had until the one summer, they found themselves circling the same dream, and neither of them wanted anything more than to let go.

Because, somewhere between their countless fights, lingering stares, and stolen touches, Elara had learned to understand the boy she'd spent her life trying to hate, and Kael had learned that the girl he'd wanted to forget was the only one who truly understood him. But the thing about falling in love with your enemy is that sometimes they don't always want you to.

Especially when the entire family has been raised to believe that they're better off without you. Now, as the sun dips lower on the horizon, Elara and Kael must decide if the night will end on a note of forgiveness or if they'll chase after what's slipping through their fingers.