Fierce. Deep. Desperate. Like she was breath and fire and the only thing that ever mattered. Her fingers curled into my chest like she was anchoring herself to me. And maybe she was.
We were whole.
We were together.
She was alive.
And I would never let her go again.
Rheon
A promise Kept
Two Years Later
Peace had finally settled across the Demon Realm — not the kind born from silence, but from survival. From blood paid. From oaths honored.
The Queen —Seori's mother— ruled now, her throne rebuilt with celestial stone and shadow steel. Her voice echoed across the realm like the wind over a quiet sea. She was no longer the weapon of war — but the hand that soothed it.
And Seori…
Gods, Seori.
She was everything.
I watched her from the balcony of our private chambers, standing barefoot in the garden she’d coaxed from ash and ruin. Crimson petals bent toward her, flowers that only bloomed under infernal moonlight, reaching for her warmth like they knew she didn’t belong here — and loved her for it anyway.
Her laugh carried like magic through the air as she bent to whisper something to a young infernal drake sunbathing beside her. The creature purred, curling around her feet like a cat.
My chest ached with love.
She was light and fury. My bonded mate. My redemption.
And still — I couldn’t stop thinking abouthim.
Her father.
The archangel who told her to come back to me— yet he never got to watch her become happy, or even grow.
She hadn’t said it aloud, but I saw it in her eyes sometimes. In the quiet when she thought I wasn’t looking. Theache. The missing piece.
So, I searched.
In secret.
Every scroll, every banned volume, every celestial ruin I could find that hadn’t turned to dust in the last thousand years. I poured through them like a man starving — and then, one day, it was there.
A passage scrawled in Old Angelic:
“A soul of divine flame may be summoned from the beyond through the gate of starlight, should one of equal blood and intent bear the weight of his sacrifice.”
I read it over and over until the meaning sank in.
It waspossible.I didn’t tell her.
Not yet.
Instead, I called Jisoo.
