ALARIC POV
I have to be honest here.
For a second, I thought she was going to lose her s**t and kiss his ass.
He must have realized the same thing too, because one glance at his sister—and he was himself again.
I didn’t move when they hugged.
Didn’t want to interrupt them.
It had been too long, and I knew how much both of them had missed that kind of love.
So I just stood there, half in the doorway, watching them.
Seven years.
That’s how long it had been.
Seven years of distance, silence, whatever the hell life had thrown between them—and now they were standing there like none of it mattered, like all that time had just… folded in on itself.
She held him like she wasn’t letting go anytime soon.
And he—
Caelin f*****g folded.
I had seen that man stand in front of councils, alp
