Summary
"She drops her bag and steps forward and presses her lips into hers, putting everything she's feeling into it, all the love and fear and sadness that's been building up in her chest since she realised she might lose him again.
He kisses her back like he's been waiting his whole life for this, his arms wrapping around her and pulling her closer like he's trying to remember exactly how she feels so he won't forget when she's gone.
She can taste tears on his lips and she doesn't know if they're his or hers, and when she finally stops kissing him she puts her hands on his face and looks at him one more time.
"Take care of yourself," she whispers so quietly she's not sure he can hear her. "Be safe."
It feels like goodbye, like the end of everything, but she hopes she's wrong, that this isn't really the last time she'll ever see him."
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Raven lost everything the day her fated mate, Draco Aslan, died. Years later, she is barely surviving—burying herself in research, numbing the pain, and clinging to memories of a love that once defined her entire world. But when the impossible happens and Draco appears alive—changed, dangerous, and claiming not to know her—Raven’s fragile reality shatters.
As secrets surface and the line between life and death blurs, Raven is forced to confront devastating truths: about betrayal, fate, and the price of loving too deeply. The man she mourned is no longer the man she knew… or is he?
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