The planet beneath them felt alive, the air heavy with the scent of something ancient, something that had been waiting. Mae stepped off the ship first, her boots crunching against the soft, foreign soil. Her heart was still racing from the journey, but there was something else, something simmering just beneath the surface.
Lucien followed behind her, his footsteps silent, but there was an undeniable tension between them now. The planet stretched out before them, the landscape foreign and alien, but Mae couldn’t shake the feeling that everything had changed.
It wasn’t just the world around her. It was him.
The way his presence seemed to wrap around her, the weight of his gaze always lingering just out of reach. Mae hadn’t realized how much it affected her until now, how much she needed t
