Maya's POVSome days, it felt like a lifetime.Other days it felt as though I had blinked, and seven years had slipped through my fingers like moonlit water.I stood on the western balcony of the Lunar Palace as evening settled across the kingdom.The capital stretched beneath me, glowing beneath thousands of lanterns.Music drifted through the streets.Laughter rose from crowded marketplaces.The Lunar Kingdom was alive.Peaceful.Prosperous.Home.The word still surprised me sometimes.For most of my life, home had been something I searched for.Something I chased across kingdoms, battlefields, and broken versions of myself.Something I nearly died trying to find.Now it existed all around me.Not as a place.As people.A familiar pair of arms wrapped around my waist.I smiled before Lucien even spoke."You escaped.""I didn't escape.""You absolutely escaped."I laughed softly."Technically, I delegated.""That's just a queen's way of saying escaped."His chin rested on top of my h
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