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The Sister He Never Chose CHAPTER 178- EPILOGUE
EPILOGUE- SEREIAOne year later, the cliffs of Santorini dropped straight into a sea so blue it looked unreal, and Valerian had bought out the entire stretch for the day — a private clifftop estate normally reserved for heads of state, white canopies lining a path carved into the rock, rose petals scattered the length of it.“You ready, child?” Gracie asked, gripping my hand like she was the one getting married.“I’ve been ready for a year.”She laughed, already crying. “Then go get him.”The quartet shifted into something slower, strings rising over the sound of waves below, and I walked.Valerian stood waiting at the end of the path, dark suit, no tie, his hair slightly windblown. He looked at me like the sea and the hundred guests behind us had simply ceased to exist.“You’re beautiful,” he said when I reached him.“You say that every time.”“Because it’s true every time.”The officiant’s words blurred past until I heard the part that mattered. “Do you, Valerian, take Sereia to be
The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 178
VALERIANThree weeks had passed since the shooting.Three weeks of white walls and beeping machines and the particular smell of antiseptic that I’d started to taste in the back of my throat even when I wasn’t in the building anymore. Three weeks of sitting in the same plastic chair, holding the same hand, memorizing every line of the same still face. Three weeks of waiting for her eyes to open.I hadn’t left the hospital once.Gracie brought me food I mostly didn’t eat. Sarah brought clean clothes I changed into without really registering it. Liyana came every afternoon straight from school, climbing up beside the bed to take her mother’s hand in both of hers, voice gone soft and careful in a way no five-year-old should have to learn. “Mommy, wake up. I miss you.”But Sereia didn’t wake up.Today, Gracie finally put her foot down.“Valerian.” She planted herself in the doorway like she meant to physically block it. “You need to go home. A few hours. Shower. Sleep in an actual bed. E
The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 177
VALERIANThe gunshot cracked through the cabin like something splitting in half, and I felt it before I understood it — my whole body going rigid even with my fist still buried in Lucas’s jaw.I looked up. Sereia was already falling. Selena stood over her, the gun still smoking in her hand, and for half a second the room just stopped — Marcus already surging toward Selena, Annabelle screaming somewhere on the floor with blood soaking through her sleeve — but none of it registered. There was only Sereia, dropping to her knees in slow motion that felt like it would never end.Blood was already spreading dark across her dress. Her eyes were open, but something in them had gone distant, unfocused, like she was looking at me from somewhere far away.“Sereia!”I shoved Lucas off me without thinking. He hit the floor and didn’t move again. I didn’t care. I was already across the room, dropping down beside her, my hands finding her shoulders.“Sereia. Look at me! Loom at me.”Her eyes found
The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 176
SEREIAThe cabin sat dead quiet in the dark — too quiet, the kind of quiet that made every small sound feel like a threat.I stood just behind Valerian, my pulse hammering so hard I could hear it in my own ears, drowning out the wind moving through the trees. Lucas stood on the porch like he owned the night. He had Liyana’s rabbit dangling loose from one hand — her purple rabbit, the one she dragged everywhere, the one she couldn’t sleep without.“Where is she?” Valerian’s voice came out flat. Ice over something boiling underneath.Lucas only smiled. “Safe. For now.”Every cell in my body wanted to lunge at him, claw the smile right off his face. My legs wouldn’t move, fear had me rooted in place like roots had grown through my feet.“She’s inside,” Lucas went on, almost conversational. “Sleeping, finally she cried a good for a good while and she kept calling for you two.” His eyes slid to me. “Almost broke my heart, Sereia. Almost.”“Give her back.”“Not yet.” He flicked the rabbit
The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 175
SEREIAThe house felt like it was holding its breath.I sat on the couch with my hands pressed between my knees, eyes locked on the front door, and every creak of the old wood made me jolt upright. Every shifting shadow across the wall made some stupid, desperate part of me think there, she’s there — and every time it wasn’t, the hollow place under my ribs widened a little more.Marcus had been gone twenty minutes. Twenty minutes of nothing. Twenty minutes where the only sound in the room was Valerian’s shoes against the floorboards.Gracie had retreated to the kitchen, where I could hear her filling a kettle no one was going to drink from. Sarah stood near the window, phone pressed to her ear, murmuring something low and urgent to someone I couldn’t identify. And Valerian just kept walking — six feet one way, turn, six feet back — like if he stopped moving his body might do something worse.“Valerian,” I said.He didn’t slow down.“Valerian.”That one landed. He spun toward me, eye
The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 174
SEREIAThe garden was still glowing when I understood my daughter was gone.Fairy lights swayed overhead like nothing had changed. The band kept playing something soft and unbothered. Somewhere behind me, glasses clinked, someone laughed too loud at a joke I’d never hear, and the whole party just kept moving, oblivious, while the ground had opened up under me.“Liyana!” The sound that came out of me didn’t feel like my own voice. “Liyana, baby, where are you?”Nothing answered. Just the band. Just the laughter. Just a silence shaped exactly like the place her voice should have filled.“Sereia.” Valerian’s hand closed around my arm. “Where did she go?”“I don’t know. She was right there.” My throat had started closing on the words. “Playing with the other kids. She was right there, Valerian.”Sarah appeared at my shoulder, all the color gone from her face. “I turned around for one second. One second, Sereia, I was taking a picture and then—”“It’s not your fault.” I pulled free of both
The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 64
SEREIALucas wasn’t good at this fathering stuff; he pushed Liyana on the swing, but it was too high causing her to grip the chains tightly, her face expressionless."Higher!" he spoke, like he was doing her a favor with a small smile on his face. "You want to go higher?" He asked and Liyana immedi
Last Updated : 2026-03-29The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 60
SEREIA I walked until my feet began to ache and until my chest hurt from exhaustion, the entire city had blurred around me as tears dripped into my eyes and I didn’t even know where I was at this point.They had dumped me in a part of town that was filled with warehouse and old bricks and I couldn
Last Updated : 2026-03-28The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 63
SEREIAThe morning sun streamed in through the windows of the kitchen, brightening up the entire place and setting a stage for Liyana to twirl around in her tutu."Mommy, can we go to the park? Please, please, please?" Liyana begged me her face twisted into a pout and I glanced at Valerian as if to
Last Updated : 2026-03-28The Sister He Never Chose Chapter 62
SEREIAAs Liyana's giggles faded into the distance I couldn't stop myself and my feet moved before my brain caught up."I'm coming too," I called out, hurrying after them and then Valerian halted at the top of the stairs but he didn’t turn. “That would be unnecessary.” He replied and Liyana immedi
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