Chapter 274 Eldur’s POV It’s been fourteen days. Fourteen days since she looked at me like I was death itself. Fourteen days since she ran from me, trembling like I’d shattered her entire world just by existing. And maybe I had. I sat outside her apartment again, for the third
Chapter 273 Eldur’s POV Her breathing was soft—too soft. I sat on the edge of the couch, elbows on my knees, staring at the curve of her brow. Her lashes fluttered every now and then, like she was dreaming. I wanted to believe it was something sweet. Something far from
Chapter 272 Eldur’s POV There are moments when I think I’ve gone completely soft. Weak, even. Not in the way people fear—supernaturals and some humans who knew the real me still flinch when they say my name, still cross the street to avoid walking beside me, still whisper the word
Chapter 271 Nova’s POV There’s just something about the way Eldur looks at me. Not in a casual, passing kind of way—like most people do when they’re halfway listening. No, when Eldur looks at me, it’s intense. Like I’m a story he’s read a hundred times but still finds new
Chapter 270 Nova’s POV Eldur kissed my hand in front of everyone. In front of everyone. I replayed it a hundred times in my head, even after class ended. The way his eyes locked onto mine, like I was something rare and precious. Like he saw me. I don’t care
Chapter 269 Nova’s POV I woke up feeling like I was riding the moon. That sounds ridiculous, right? But that’s the only way I can describe it. Light. Floating. Soft. Magical. Like the world had decided, just for a moment, to stop being cruel and complicated, and instead cradle me
Chapter 268 Eldur’s POV She tasted like rain. Nova held my entire existence in her small hands. I knew it the second her lips met mine—soft and human and warm in the way that made my chest clench. But I didn’t stop. I didn’t want to stop. Nova’s fingers were
Chapter 267 Eldur’s POV The rain was relentless—angry, the way I liked it. The kind that smacked the concrete like it had something to prove. It bled through the sleeves of my jacket, soaked into the hem of my hoodie, and plastered my white hair to my forehead like a
Chapter 266 Eldur POV She said, “Please leave me alone p> It was quiet. Gentle. Like a whisper begging to be believed. But it felt like a blade to the chest. A slow one, too. The kind that doesn’t kill—just carves out something important and leaves the rest of you
Chapter 265 Nova’s POV I told him to leave me alone. So he did. And I hated it. Eldur still came to work at Prologue Pages, he showed up for his shifts like clockwork, still carried himself with that calm, otherworldly intensity that somehow made everything else in the room
Chapter 264 Nova’s POV When I woke up, everything was too quiet. At first, I wasn’t even sure where I was. My eyes opened to unfamiliar shadows stretching across a ceiling that wasn’t mine. It took a few seconds before memory trickled back in—his apartment, his bed, his arms around
Chapter 263 Eldur’s POV It started with a whisper. A whisper in my head that wouldn’t shut up the moment she said yes. “Yes, I’ll stay over p> Nova didn’t realize it, but she’d just agreed to sleep in the house of a werewolf-wizard hybrid who had accidentally once melted
Chapter 262 Nova’s POV The warmth of Eldur’s shoulder had started to lull me into a comfortable sort of silence. The park was completely empty save for the rustling leaves and the distant sound of a car speeding through the night. I didn’t want to move. Didn’t want to leave
Chapter 261 Nova’s POV I didn’t mean to stay leaning on Eldur’s shoulder. Okay, maybe I did. Just a little. There was something about the way Eldur sat—so still, like a statue that just happened to breathe. I kept telling myself I’d straighten up any second now, make some awkward
Chapter 260 Nova’s POV The cold from the bench was seeping into my spine, but I didn’t move. I couldn’t. My knees were curled up to my chest, my fingers clenched in the fabric of my jeans, and my breath kept hitching in a way that made my chest ache.
Chapter 259 Nova’s POV For the first time in a long time, I felt… light. Carefree, even. It was as if the world, heavy with its expectations and worries, had quietly released its grip on me; and in return for every struggle, every sleepless night, the universe had sent me
Chapter 258 Eldur’s POV Magic is simple. People are not. I would take conjuring a hydra over trying to understand Nova’s smile any day. Because a hydra, at least, doesn’t make your chest ache in a stupid, fluttery way or make your brain short-circuit when it tucks a loose strand
Chapter 257 Eldur’s POV Nova was quiet. Too quiet. That wasn’t her usual brand of silence either—not the kind where her thoughts brewed behind her eyes like morning coffee, warm and rich and full of unspoken ideas. No. This was the brittle silence. Like glass balancing on a shelf. One
Chapter 256 Eldur’s POV I swear to every ancient power, if one more human squints at me like I’m some kind of intergalactic glitter alien, I’m setting the fire alarm off with my mind. Okay, not really. Not because I don’t want to—but because apparently using magic in human school
Chapter 255 Eldur’s POV I never thought I’d say this, but… humans are weird. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’ve tortured vampires and made grown werewolves cry like newborn pups. I’ve opened portals in the middle of a fight just to drop my enemies into a nest of venomous