Chapter 92

ANDRES She was here. Valentina. The one the Moon whispered to me about in every battle. The one I dreamed of long before her soul took form in this life. The one who haunted lifetimes I had lived, and ones I never would. She didn’t know, not yet, that I had waited for her—for thousands of years. Through kingdoms that rose and fell, through countless wars etched into stone tablets, through women in high positions who were never truly mine, through lifetimes filled with glory, pain, and silence. She was the only one. My mate and my forever. And when I finally found her, when the Moon gave her back to me, scarred but alive, furious, but burning with the bond—I thought I had time. One night, that’s all fate allowed me. One night in her arms, one breath of peace, one moment of a kiss that could have shattered the heavens. Then—all the chaos descended, as though they never existed in time. The Elders summoned me before sunrise. The ancient seals below the northern ridges had trembled in thei