Chapter 132

• Lucas POV
• One year later.
• I watch Aurora slump into the chair across from me, her head falling back against the cushion, eyes half-closed with exhaustion. Emmi sits beside me on the couch, her little finger tracing the pictures in her storybook, her voice a soft murmur as she reads to herself. Axel, our newborn son, snores lightly in her arms, his tiny fist curled against her chest. The house is quiet, the kind of quiet that feels earned after everything we’ve been through.