Chapter 112 Where It All Began

• [KNOX]
• Whatever the Moon Goddess has planned for me, it can wait.
• Xena is in my arms right now, and for the first time tonight, my mind stops racing long enough to recognize the simple truth of it. She’s here. She hasn’t pulled away yet. Her warmth seeps through the thin layers of fabric between us, and I don’t want to surrender even a fraction of this moment to anything else—not the trials happening somewhere in the palace, not the curse etched into my skin, not the whisper of fate that has been haunting me since she first stepped into my life.