Chapter 2270
- Alfonso stood by the bed. From the moment Howard opened his eyes, his heart had been hanging in midair, stretched so taut it was almost suffocating.
- He watched Howard go from confusion to clarity, from stillness to upheaval, watching shadows belonging to Ethereal Lumin Hold gradually surface in those eyes—things only he and Amelia could understand.
- Those were memories etched into the bones and blood of the three of them, a tacit understanding and bond no outsider could glimpse or replicate.