|Nieves|
As soon as my feet touched the grand steps of the Lanister mansion, my breath came in ragged gasps, my chest rising and falling with the weight of exhaustion. I forced myself forward, pushing toward the entrance, but just as I was about to step inside, the sound of hurried footsteps echoed through the air—urgent, desperate.
Then, a figure emerged from the doorway.
“Snow!”
The world around me seemed to blur, everything fading into the background the moment I saw him. And before I could react, his arms wrapped around me in a crushing embrace.
David.
His warmth enveloped me, familiar and overwhelming, as if he were trying to hold me together, to keep me from falling apart. His grip was so tight it stole the breath from my lungs, yet I couldn’t bring myself to pull away. My body
