Chapter 156

• Lily’s POV
• Moonlight poured down like frost, enveloping Ethan and me in a silent silver glow. Deep in my bones, the familiar pain rolled in like the tide—the sign of a curse that has weighed on me for over twenty years. Yet compared to the soul-wrenching pain of six months ago, before I bonded with Ethan, this pain has grown milder.
• Ethan sat across from me. His steady presence was an invisible anchor, and I no longer had to grimace just to get through it.