Chapter 55: Moonshadow Ridge
The moon hung low over the valley, its pale glow stretching across the ancient woods of Moonshadow Ridge like a silver veil. The air was dense with the scent of rain-soaked pine and the distant rumble of thunder that rolled like a warning from the heavens. Evelyn stood at the ridge’s edge, her heart pounding as she looked down at the mist-covered expanse below. Somewhere in that darkness lay the truth—the truth she had spent months chasing, the truth Adrian had risked everything to protect.
She tightened her coat against the wind, her mind flashing back to everything that had brought her here: the lies, the half-truths, the unexpected love that had taken root between her and Adrian despite everything standing against them. He had tried to keep her away from t
