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00:00I don't even know why I'm telling you this.
00:02Maybe because the silence gets too loud when she's asleep.
00:04Maybe because I still see his eyes every time I close mine.
00:07Either way, it started at that market.
00:10The one by the river where everything smells like overripe fruit and salt.
00:14I'd gone there because we were out of milk.
00:16Out of milk and out of peace.
00:18My daughter, Ava, was four.
00:20Wild curls, strawberry-stained mouth.
00:23Always humming under her breath like she knew something the world didn't.
00:26I remember holding her hand tight that morning.
00:30Tighter than usual.
00:31Because I'd seen the same black car drive past our street twice that week.
00:35You start to notice those things when you're running from someone who doesn't like to lose.
00:40Ava was talking about the muffins she wanted.
00:42Pointing at every booth.
00:44Asking questions faster than I could answer.
00:46I smiled, but my stomach was one big knot.
00:49I could feel eyes on me.
00:51Maybe imagined, maybe not.
00:53When you've lived in fear long enough, your own shadow starts looking suspicious.
00:58Then she let go of my hand.
01:00Just like that.
01:01One second she was beside me and the next she was gone.
01:04I swear the air stopped moving.
01:06I called her name once.
01:08Then again.
01:09Then again.
01:11Louder.
01:12Nothing.
01:13I ran past the fruit stands, the flower stalls, people turning their heads, frowning at the
01:20crazy woman yelling, Ava.
01:22Like the world was ending.
01:24And maybe it was.
01:26I found her near the fountain.
01:28She was hugging a stranger.
01:30A man.
01:31Tall.
01:32Black shirt.
01:33Sleeves rolled.
01:34Expensive watch that didn't belong in a place like this.
01:38His hand was resting lightly on her back.
01:40Not holding her, just...
01:42Steadying her.
01:42She looked so small against him, like she'd run into something solid and safe without even
01:47thinking.
01:48I froze.
01:50Everything in me screamed danger, but she looked up at him like she'd found something
01:54familiar.
01:54When I rushed forward, my heart was pounding so hard I could barely breathe.
02:00Let her go.
02:01I snapped.
02:02My voice came out too sharp, like I was trying to convince myself I had control.
02:07He looked at me then, calm, unhurried, like he already knew how this was going to play
02:13out.
02:14His eyes were dark, unreadable.
02:16But what unnerved me wasn't the danger in them.
02:19It was the quiet, like he was the only person in that chaotic market who wasn't pretending.
02:23She ran into me, he said, voice low, smooth, like he was used to being obeyed.
02:31She said she knew me.
02:32She doesn't, I said quickly, pulling Ava back.
02:36My hands were shaking.
02:38I'm sorry, she's just...
02:39She talks to everyone.
02:41He studied me, not her.
02:43It felt like being seen through, and I hated it.
02:46Then he crouched to Ava's level, still calm, still too sure of himself.
02:51Do you know who I am, little one?
02:53He asked her softly.
02:54Ava nodded.
02:55You're where we belong, I swear to God.
02:58My knees almost gave out.
02:59I scooped her up and turned to leave, muttering apologies, trying to put distance between us.
03:05But he said something that made me stop cold.
03:07She knows where she belongs, he murmured behind me.
03:11You should start asking yourself if you do.
03:13I didn't look back.
03:15I couldn't.
03:16That night, I couldn't sleep.
03:17Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Ava's tiny arms wrapped around that stranger's waist.
03:23The way he'd looked at me, not with recognition, but with intention.
03:28Like he was deciding something.
03:30The next morning, there was a note slipped under my door.
03:34No name, no signature.
03:35Just four words written in clean, firm handwriting.
03:39You can't hide forever.
03:40I should have called the police.
03:42I didn't.
03:43Because I knew exactly who would find me first if I did.
03:46I'd spent five years pretending my past didn't exist.
03:49Changing cities, jobs, hair color, even my last name.
03:52I thought I'd buried that part of my life under enough lies to smother it.
03:56But men like him, men like them, don't forget debts.
04:01Three days passed before I saw him again.
04:04It was raining.
04:05Not pouring.
04:06Just enough to make everything smell like rust and old promises.
04:10I was locking up the bakery where I worked nights when I saw a black car parked across the street.
04:15Same model.
04:16Same quiet hum of a predator waiting.
04:18He stepped out.
04:20That same black shirt.
04:21That same impossible calm.
04:23I froze.
04:24Keys digging into my palm.
04:26If you're here to scare me, I said.
04:29It's working.
04:30He smiled faintly, like it wasn't about fear at all.
04:34If I wanted to scare you, you'd already know.
04:37Then what do you want?
04:39He took a slow step closer, his eyes flicking past me, scanning the street before meeting mine again.
04:46I want to know why a woman with a child is living under a name that doesn't belong to her.
04:51My stomach dropped.
04:52You've been following me.
04:54He didn't deny it.
04:56You make it hard not to.
04:57You move every few months, change your job, your address.
05:00But you keep the same bedtime story for your daughter.
05:03The girl who ran from the wolf.
05:05My breath caught.
05:06How do you...
05:07Because I know the wolf, he said quietly.
05:09And I know what he took from you.
05:12Something in my chest cracked open.
05:14I hadn't said that story out loud since the night I left my husband's body on the floor and ran with Ava in my arms.
05:21He looked down.
05:22Almost gently.
05:24You're safe for now.
05:25But they know you're alive.
05:26They're looking.
05:28I shook my head.
05:29Tears burning behind my eyes.
05:31You don't know what you're talking about.
05:33He stepped closer, lowering his voice.
05:35You think I don't recognize the look of someone who's been owned by a man like that?
05:40You think I don't know what it costs to get free?
05:42I wanted to hit him.
05:43I wanted to scream.
05:45But all I did was whisper.
05:47Why are you here?
05:48He hesitated.
05:50Then said,
05:51Because your daughter ran to me like she already knew I'd protect her.
05:55Silence.
05:57The kind that presses down until it hurts.
06:00Then headlights cut through the street.
06:02And he moved fast.
06:03Too fast.
06:04Grabbing my arm and pulling me behind him.
06:07Two men stepped out of the car across the road.
06:09I knew that look.
06:11The casual cruelty of it.
06:13Get inside, he said.
06:15I'm not leaving you.
06:16His jaw tightened.
06:18You don't even know me.
06:19You're the only thing between them and her, I said.
06:23That's enough.
06:25He stared at me for a long, loaded second.
06:27Then nodded.
06:29Then stay quiet.
06:31What happened next felt like a blur of noise and motion.
06:35Glass shattering.
06:36Fists.
06:37The dull thud of flesh meeting metal.
06:40I remember the smell of gunpowder.
06:42I remember his arm around me.
06:44Pushing me into the bakery's back room.
06:46And then...
06:48Silence again.
06:50When I looked up, the street was empty.
06:53The men were gone.
06:55He was bleeding.
06:56He leaned against the counter, breathing hard.
06:59You shouldn't have stayed.
07:01You shouldn't have come.
07:03We stared at each other.
07:05Two people who had already lost too much.
07:08And then he said,
07:09My name's Luca.
07:10You don't have to trust me.
07:12But you should know.
07:13I'm the reason you're still alive tonight.
07:15I felt something shift inside me.
07:18Something I didn't want to name.
07:21He pushed off the counter, winced, and said,
07:24They'll come back.
07:26You and the kid can't stay here.
07:29Where do you expect us to go?
07:30He looked at me like the answer should have been obvious.
07:33With me, I shook my head.
07:35Not a chance.
07:36He moved closer, voice soft but firm.
07:39You think I'm giving you a choice?
07:41And for the first time, I didn't know whether to run or breathe.
07:45That's where it began.
07:47The night my daughter's innocence dragged the devil to my door.
07:50And I let him in.
07:51When I woke up, sunlight was slicing through tall windows I didn't recognize.
07:59For a second I thought maybe I was dreaming.
08:01The sheets were too soft, the air too still.
08:04Then I saw the man leaning against the doorway.
08:06Black shirt again, sleeves rolled.
08:09Watching me like he was trying to decide whether I was a problem or a puzzle.
08:14Luca.
08:15He didn't say good morning.
08:17He didn't have to.
08:18The silence between us had already turned into a language.
08:21Where's my daughter?
08:22I asked, sitting up fast.
08:25In the garden, he said, voice low, even.
08:28There's a swing.
08:30My housekeeper's watching her.
08:32Your housekeeper, I repeated, tasting the word like it might poison me.
08:37You kidnapped us and handed her to a stranger?
08:40He tilted his head slightly.
08:42You weren't safe where you were.
08:44Now you are.
08:45Try to keep up, I wanted to scream.
08:47Instead, I threw the blanket off and stood, barefoot on the cold marble floor.
08:52You don't get to decide what's safe for me.
08:55He stepped closer.
08:56The kind of calm that could slice a man open.
08:59Someone has to.
09:01For a moment, neither of us breathed.
09:04Then I brushed past him.
09:05Out the door.
09:07Down the hall, lined with paintings that probably cost more than my old apartment.
09:10I found Ava outside, laughing as she tried to chase butterflies through a patch of sunlight.
09:17She looked.
09:18Free.
09:19The way only a child can.
09:21And there it was again.
09:23That sharp twist in my chest.
09:25The reminder that everything she touched turned softer.
09:29Even him.
09:30I crouched beside her.
09:32You like it here?
09:34She nodded, curls bouncing.
09:36The nice man made pancakes.
09:37I froze.
09:38He cooked for you?
09:40She nodded again, beaming.
09:42He said sugar helps with fear.
09:43My throat tightened.
09:45I didn't know whether to cry or punch something.
09:48Luca was sitting on the porch steps, watching us.
09:51He didn't look dangerous in that moment.
09:53Just tired.
09:54Like the world had been heavier than he'd planned for, and somehow he was still carrying it.
10:00I walked over.
10:01You can't buy our trust with breakfast.
10:04He didn't look at me.
10:06I'm not trying to buy anything.
10:08Then what do you want?
10:09His jaw flexed.
10:11To keep you alive.
10:13I didn't know how to argue with that without sounding ungrateful or terrified.
10:17Both were true.
10:19The day unfolded in uneasy silence.
10:21I learned his house wasn't a home.
10:23It was a fortress.
10:25Guards at the gate.
10:26Cameras tucked into corners.
10:28Glass walls that looked out over the ocean but let you feel like you were being watched
10:32from inside your own reflection.
10:35At night, when Ava fell asleep, I wandered into the kitchen to find him sitting there
10:40with a drink, the city lights burning far below.
10:43You didn't tell me where we are.
10:46I said quietly.
10:47He didn't look up.
10:49Does it matter?
10:50It does when you've been running for half your life.
10:52He studied me for a long second.
10:55Los Angeles.
10:57Outskirts.
10:57Nobody knows you're here.
10:59I sat across from him.
11:01Who are you, really?
11:02His mouth curved slightly.
11:04You already know.
11:05I did.
11:05And I hated it.
11:06The car.
11:07The men.
11:08The way he moved like violence had been his first language.
11:11He was one of them.
11:13A mafia boss.
11:14Maybe not the one I'd escaped.
11:15But close enough to feel like history repeating.
11:19I thought I was done with your world.
11:21I whispered.
11:23He set the glass down.
11:25Then stopped calling it mine.
11:26For a moment, he looked human.
11:28His eyes weren't hard.
11:29They were haunted.
11:30I didn't ask why.
11:32You can always tell when a man's sins are older than his scars.
11:35Days bled into weeks.
11:37Routine crept in like fog.
11:38I cooked breakfast.
11:40He checked on us like a warden pretending to be polite.
11:43Ava adored him.
11:44She'd wait for him to come home just to show him her drawings.
11:47He'd pretend not to care.
11:49But I caught him keeping one once.
11:51Folded it and slipped it into his jacket pocket.
11:55He'd been right about one thing.
11:57We were safe.
11:59For now.
12:00Until one night, everything cracked.
12:02I was in the study, helping Ava draw a castle when Luca came in.
12:06His face was pale.
12:08His movements too careful.
12:09He looked like a man carrying news he didn't want to say out loud.
12:13Go brush your teeth, sweetheart, I told Ava.
12:16When she was gone, I said,
12:18What happened?
12:19They found you.
12:20The words landed like a gunshot.
12:22He paced once, then stopped.
12:25Your husband's brother.
12:26He's been asking questions.
12:27Paying people off.
12:29He's alive?
12:30Luca nodded.
12:31And he wants what he thinks you stole.
12:33I didn't steal anything.
12:35His gaze softened.
12:37Then tell him that.
12:38You think that'll work?
12:39No, he said simply.
12:41I sank into the chair.
12:43You shouldn't have brought us here.
12:45You've painted a target on yourself.
12:47He smirked faintly.
12:48I've had worse things painted on me.
12:50Something in me snapped.
12:52Do you ever take anything seriously?
12:54He took a slow step closer.
12:57You, silence stretched.
12:58His words hung between us.
13:00Heavy.
13:01Dangerous.
13:02Real.
13:03I could feel my pulse in my throat.
13:05Don't, I whispered.
13:07Don't make this into something it can't be.
13:09He stopped right in front of me.
13:11What if it already is?
13:13He brushed a strand of hair from my face.
13:15The touch was almost reverent.
13:17And I hated that my body leaned into it before my mind could protest.
13:22Luca?
13:22He didn't kiss me.
13:24He just looked at me like he was memorizing the shape of my fear.
13:27You deserve peace, he said.
13:29Even if I can't give it to you.
13:31Then he walked out.
13:32That night, I couldn't sleep.
13:34I went downstairs and found him in the courtyard,
13:37standing barefoot under the moonlight,
13:39shirt unbuttoned at the throat,
13:41a bruise blooming on his ribs.
13:43Why are you helping us?
13:44I asked.
13:45He didn't turn around.
13:47Because once someone helped me.
13:49And I failed her.
13:50Your wife?
13:51He laughed under his breath, cold and sharp.
13:53My sister.
13:54Something broke open in him then.
13:56He told me she'd fallen in love with the wrong man.
13:59A cop, of all things.
14:01When the families found out, she disappeared.
14:04Her body turned up three months later.
14:06Love makes people careless, he said, voice flat.
14:10You start believing you can build something pure out of dirt.
14:13I stepped closer, quietly.
14:15Maybe she wasn't wrong.
14:17Maybe you just stopped believing too soon.
14:20He turned to me then.
14:21Eyes darker than I'd ever seen.
14:23You sound like her.
14:24For a heartbeat, neither of us moved.
14:27Then the sound of tires screeching outside cut through the quiet.
14:30He grabbed my hand.
14:32Get her.
14:32Now.
14:34I ran upstairs, scooped Ava from bed, and by the time we reached the hallway, the windows
14:39were already glowing with headlights.
14:42Gunfire tore through the glass.
14:43I screamed, ducking low, covering Ava with my body.
14:48Luca was already moving, shouting something to his men.
14:51The air was chaos, shards, smoke, shouting.
14:54He pulled us toward a side door, pushed us through, and yelled,
14:57Go to the garage, take the black SUV.
15:00Keep driving until sunrise.
15:02What about you?
15:04I'll hold them off.
15:05I shook my head, tears blurring everything.
15:08You can't fight them alone.
15:10He cupped my face, breath harsh.
15:13You still don't get it, do you?
15:14I've been fighting them my whole life.
15:16And then he kissed me.
15:18Brief.
15:19Desperate.
15:19Real.
15:20The kind of kiss that doesn't promise tomorrow.
15:23Only proves you still have a heartbeat tonight.
15:25Before I could say anything, he pushed me toward the car.
15:30Drive, he said.
15:32I did.
15:34The last thing I saw in the rearview mirror was him,
15:37standing in the shattered glass.
15:39Gun raised, eyes burning.
15:42And as the road curved out of sight,
15:44I whispered the only prayer I'd ever meant.
15:47Don't let him die for me.
15:49The horizon swallowed the night hole.
15:51Ava slept in the back seat, clutching her stuffed rabbit.
15:54And I drove until dawn.
15:56When I finally stopped, I had no idea where we were.
16:00Just that the world was quiet again.
16:03Too quiet, I told myself I'd never go back.
16:05That we'd start over one more time.
16:07But the truth was already blooming like bruises beneath my skin.
16:12He wasn't just the man who saved me.
16:14He was the man I couldn't forget.
16:17Even if forgetting was the only way to survive.
16:19And somewhere in that silence,
16:22I knew.
16:23Luca might have survived the night.
16:25But we'd never be free from each other again.
16:27It took six months before I stopped checking the shadows.
16:35Even longer before I stopped waking up to the sound of his voice in my head.
16:39Ava and I moved north.
16:41Small, coastal town nobody cared about.
16:44I found a job cleaning rooms at a motel that smelled like lemon polish and loneliness.
16:48She started school, made friends, laughed again.
16:52Every morning, I'd braid her hair and tell myself this was what survival looked like.
16:57Quiet mornings.
16:58Safe streets.
16:59No black cars waiting at corners.
17:02But survival isn't peace.
17:05It's pretending not to look over your shoulder while your heart keeps counting ghosts.
17:09For weeks, I heard nothing.
17:11No word, no trace.
17:12I told myself Luca was gone.
17:14Maybe dead.
17:15Maybe just erased by the life he'd chosen.
17:18He'd saved us, that was enough.
17:19It had to be.
17:21Then one afternoon, I found something tucked in the pages of Ava's sketchbook.
17:25A folded sheet of paper in his handwriting.
17:28She knows where she belongs.
17:30My hands shook.
17:31Where did you get this?
17:33I asked her.
17:34Ava smiled like it was no big deal.
17:36The man at the pier gave it to me.
17:38He said you'd understand.
17:40The world tilted.
17:42I waited until she was asleep that night before I drove down to the pier.
17:46It was empty.
17:46Just the waves and the smell of salt.
17:49I walked until my shoes were soaked.
17:51No one.
17:52No Luca.
17:53No answers.
17:54For the first time in months, I whispered his name.
17:57Luca.
17:58And I swear.
18:00Swear.
18:01I heard him.
18:02Turn around.
18:03He was standing by the railing.
18:05Half shadow.
18:06Half memory.
18:07The ocean wind tugged at his black shirt.
18:10A thin scar cut through his cheek now.
18:12He looked older.
18:13Heavier, but alive.
18:14I couldn't breathe.
18:16You're supposed to be dead.
18:17He smiled faintly.
18:19You always did underestimate me.
18:22I walked closer.
18:23Slow.
18:24Like he might vanish if I blinked.
18:26You let me believe you died.
18:27I wanted you safe, he said simply.
18:32And the safest version of me was a ghost.
18:34The anger hit first.
18:36Years of fear and longing slamming into one word.
18:40You don't get to decide what I can handle.
18:42I did what I had to.
18:44No.
18:45You did what you always do.
18:47You control.
18:48You protect.
18:48You disappear.
18:49He stepped forward.
18:51And you're alive because of it.
18:53We stood there.
18:54The tide creeping up.
18:56Waves whispering things neither of us wanted to admit.
18:59Finally, I said,
19:00Why now?
19:02Because it's over, he said quietly.
19:04The men who were looking for you, they're gone.
19:07Permanently.
19:08I stared at him.
19:10You killed them.
19:11He didn't flinch.
19:12I cleaned up the mess I made.
19:14I wanted to hate him for it.
19:16For the blood that followed him like a shadow.
19:18But the truth was, part of me had been waiting for this.
19:23Some twisted closure to the nightmare.
19:26He looked at me like he was memorizing the moment.
19:29You and your daughter can stay hidden.
19:31Or you can stop running.
19:33I laughed, low and broken.
19:35And do what?
19:36Move into your world of guns and bodyguards?
19:38He shook his head.
19:40No, that world's done too.
19:42I walked away.
19:43The wind caught my hair.
19:44And for a second, I saw something in his eyes I'd never seen before.
19:49Peace.
19:50The kind that costs a man everything to earn.
19:53He reached into his jacket.
19:55Pulled out a small silver necklace.
19:58I recognized it instantly.
20:00It was mine.
20:01The one I'd lost the night we escaped.
20:03You left this behind, he said.
20:05I took it.
20:06Fingers brushing his.
20:08Electricity.
20:09Memory.
20:10Regret.
20:11You could have left us alone, I whispered.
20:15I tried, he said.
20:17But every time I closed my eyes, I saw her running toward me in that market.
20:21Like she knew something I didn't.
20:23What's that?
20:24He met my gaze.
20:25That I belonged somewhere too.
20:27I didn't have an answer.
20:29The silence between us did the talking.
20:31He took a step back.
20:33Like he was ready to walk away again.
20:35You don't owe me anything, Isabella.
20:38Hearing my real name after so long, it almost broke me.
20:41I swallowed hard.
20:43What if I wanted to owe you something?
20:45He looked startled, just for a heartbeat.
20:48Then his expression softened.
20:50Don't say that unless you mean it.
20:52I meant it.
20:53Every scar.
20:55Every sleepless night.
20:57Every memory that led me back to this exact moment.
21:00I meant it all.
21:02But love like that isn't simple.
21:04It never is, I said.
21:06Ava's happy.
21:07She's safe.
21:08If you stay, you can't bring the storm back with you.
21:12He nodded slowly.
21:13Then I'll learn to live without thunder.
21:15We stood there until the tide rose enough to touch our shoes.
21:19I didn't say I forgave him.
21:21He didn't ask me to.
21:22But when he reached for my hand, I didn't pull away.
21:26Days turned into weeks again.
21:27This time with him around.
21:29He never stayed the night.
21:31Always left before dawn.
21:32But Ava would find little signs of him.
21:36A red rose on the porch.
21:37A note with her drawings.
21:39A loaf of bread that definitely wasn't from the corner store.
21:43She started asking less about the past.
21:45More about the future.
21:47Is Luca going to stay, Mommy?
21:49She asked one morning over cereal.
21:51I don't know, sweetheart.
21:53But he smiles now, she said, spooning milk.
21:56He didn't before.
21:58That night, I found him fixing the screen door.
22:00I leaned against the doorway, arms crossed.
22:03She says you smile now.
22:05He looked up.
22:06Maybe I'm learning how.
22:08I stepped closer.
22:09Doesn't suit you.
22:10He smirked faintly.
22:11Maybe not.
22:12But you do.
22:13I didn't know what to say to that.
22:15So I didn't say anything at all.
22:17He finished the door, stood, and brushed his hands off.
22:21You could come back, you know.
22:23Start over with your real name.
22:24They're gone.
22:25You don't have to hide anymore.
22:26I don't know who I am without the hiding.
22:30I admitted.
22:31He looked at me like he already knew that answer.
22:33Then we'll find out together.
22:35And just like that, the fear began to fade.
22:38We built something small.
22:40Quiet.
22:42He helped me by the bakery where I used to scrub floors.
22:45Ava started calling him Luca Bear, which made him cringe every single time.
22:49Life got weirdly normal.
22:51Bills.
22:52Burnt toast.
22:53School plays.
22:53Sometimes I'd catch him staring at the horizon, like he was still waiting for the past to
22:58show up.
23:00I understood.
23:01Healing doesn't erase the ghosts.
23:03It just teaches you to live with them.
23:05One evening, after closing the bakery, I found him wiping flour from his hands, watching
23:11Ava through the window as she fed crumbs to seagulls.
23:15He said,
23:16You ever think about what it would have been like if we met before all this?
23:20All the time, I said.
23:22But then I wouldn't have known who you really are.
23:24I might have walked right past you.
23:27Maybe that's what we were supposed to do.
23:30Maybe.
23:31But we didn't.
23:33He smiled softly.
23:35That rare, honest kind of smile.
23:37No.
23:38We didn't.
23:39We stood in the doorway, watching Ava laugh like she hadn't been born in the middle of
23:43danger.
23:44Do you regret it?
23:46I asked.
23:47He turned to me.
23:48Not the parts that led to you.
23:51I don't know what happens after stories like ours end.
23:54There's no fairy tale, no perfect peace.
23:56Some nights, the past still knocks.
23:58Quiet but persistent.
23:59Some mornings, I still wake up reaching for the gun I don't need anymore.
24:03But there's laughter now.
24:06There's sunlight in the kitchen and small hands tugging at my sleeves.
24:10There's a man who once lived in the dark, learning how to breathe in daylight.
24:14And there's me.
24:16No longer running.
24:18No longer pretending.
24:20Just living.
24:21When I tuck Ava in at night, she always says the same thing.
24:25Tell me the story, Mommy.
24:27And I do.
24:27Every time.
24:29About the day she hugged a stranger at the market.
24:31And how that stranger turned out to be the man who saved us.
24:35Ruined us.
24:35Rebuilt us.
24:37She giggles at the ending.
24:38The way kids do when they don't understand the ache behind the words.
24:42When she's asleep, I sit by her bed and whisper,
24:46You knew before I did, baby girl.
24:48You knew where we belonged.
24:51Outside, I can hear Luca closing the bakery, locking the door,
24:55humming something low under his breath.
24:57The sound wraps around me like safety.
25:00Not the kind you hide behind,
25:01but the kind you build with someone who refuses to let you break again.
25:06I used to think survival was running.
25:09Now I know it's staying.
25:10And maybe that's what the fire left behind.
25:13Not ashes, not ruin.
25:15Just two people who finally stopped running long enough to be found.
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