Chapter 21: What Grows in Silence
Love did not find them like lightning. It found them like breath. Slow. Unavoidable. Already there before either of them knew when it began. Kaden noticed it in the smallest betrayals of himself how his feet carried him toward Skyler’s path before his mind gave the order, how the tension in his shoulders eased the moment she entered a room, how the bond no longer surged like a warning but pulsed like a promise. You’re orbiting her, Kane teased from deep within, lazy and smug. Kaden stiffened. I am not. You literally changed patrol routes to pass the infirmary. Kaden ignored him. Kane did not shut up. Skyler felt it too. In how she no longer stepped back when Kaden stood too close. In how her hands lingered on his skin when she treated him, not to heal but to stay. Sai purred in h
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