Chapter 216 Daniel

• Rina’s POV
• The sun streamed in through the wide bay windows of our coastal home, casting long golden rays across the cream-and-ocean-blue walls like fingers from heaven reaching gently toward the earth. The scent of salt and lavender filtered in through gauzy white curtains, and the rhythmic crash of waves in the distance hummed like a lullaby I’d never stop needing.
• Our family estate was always quiet in the morning, but today it pulsed with something more — not noise, but presence. An electric softness, like the universe was holding its breath in the gentlest way, waiting for magic to unfold.