Kaius pressed a kiss into her hair, his voice barely a whisper as he held her closer.
“You’re mine now, Raya. And I’ll spend the rest of my life loving and cherishing you.”
Raya’s breath was still uneven as her hand traced lazy, tender circles on Kaius’s chest, feeling the steady beat of his heart beneath her fingers, a rhythm now matched to hers, bound by fate and fire. She looked up at him with eyes soft, overwhelmed with emotion, and yet alight with something fierce and tender all at once. Her voice, still hoarse from the passion and the tears that had shaped the night, broke the silence in a gentle whisper.
“I would love and cherish you for the rest of my life, Kaius,” she said, her voice trembling not from uncertainty, but from the weight of truth.
Those words wrapped around his s
