Chapter 27 Together Forever

• Elara
• I stared at the tiny rings made from flower stems, touched by the idea and yet feeling a strange heaviness settle in my chest. It was an innocent gesture, but the girls didn’t realize just how awkward the idea of us wearing rings truly was.
• After all, Alaric and I weren’t husband and wife. Not in a way that mattered, at least. And the very moment these six months were up, we would get a divorce and shatter the very notion of the girls living in a whole household.