Liliana’s POV
A day had passed since the revelations that shattered everything I thought I knew.
The weight of it pressed against my chest, heavy and suffocating. It wasn’t just grief—it was a slow unraveling of the very foundation I had stood on my entire life. My past, my family’s past, Bastian’s… they weren’t just stories of war and betrayal. They were curses written into our bloodlines before we had even drawn our first breaths.
And yet, before last night, Bastian and I had been on the edge of something else entirely.
We had been ready to claim each other, to give in, to finally mark one another and solidify our bond. The hunger between us had been undeniable, primal—woven with love and an unspoken need that neither of us had tried to fight anymore.
But after everything we had lea
