Leah
Keanu met his eyes. Something passed between them. Not spoken but understood. The agreement that had been building since the moment Keanu called Darien about the virus. One stays. One goes.
“I’m going to stay with Leah,” Darien said. “You fly to the forest, find the noctis bloom, and bring it back.”
Keanu nodded. No hesitation. He’d been waiting for this. He wouldn’t have left before Darien came home, wouldn’t have taken even a single step out of the kingdom without knowing that the man who would die for his sister was at her side. But now Darien was here. And the path was clear.
“I’ll find it,” Keanu said. “Take care of her.”
“With my life.”
Keanu bent down to hug me. His arms wrapped around me, smelling faintly of the kitchen spices he’d been experimenting with all week. He he
