The night was thick with silence, broken only by the rhythmic tapping of rain against her window. She sat curled in the corner of her dimly lit bedroom, clutching the engagement ring that no longer had a purpose. Noah was gone. Forever. The man who had brought her happiness, who had made her forget the forbidden love she harbored for years, had been ripped from her life in an instant.

She closed her eyes, but all she saw was him—Lucien. His piercing gaze, his quiet strength, the way his presence consumed every part of her. She wasn't supposed to think about him like this. He had been her sister's.

But now, grief intertwined them in ways she never expected. And in the depths of loss, emotions that had once been buried clawed their way to the surface.

She thought she had moved on. She thought she had left that dangerous love behind.

She was wrong.