Chapter 68 Shadows And Light

• Aphrodite's Point of View
• The following days with Jax became a blur of uncertainty and discovery. Each morning, we would rise with the sun filtering through the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the forest floor. It was a world both beautiful and terrifying, a place where I could lose myself—and yet, somehow, I was beginning to find myself in the wild.
• Jax had a way of navigating the forest that fascinated me. He moved with an ease that spoke of years spent in these woods, each step deliberate and confident. As we traveled together, he taught me how to read the signs of nature—the way the birds fluttered when danger approached, the tracks left behind by deer, and the subtle shifts in the wind that signaled a storm was brewing. It was like learning a new language, one that connected me to the earth and the life that thrived within it.