He was everything she had been taught to fear. She was everything he had been taught to distrust. They were never meant to meet. Never meant to understand one another. And certainly never meant to fall in love. But beneath endless skies, beside quiet rivers and in a village that slowly became home, two hearts found each other despite a world determined to keep them apart. Because sometimes the greatest act of courage isn't surviving a war... It's loving the person history tells you should be your enemy. ≿━━━━༺❀༻━━━━≾ "Tell me I'm still just a settler." "...I can't." "Takoda, please." His jaw tightened. "I stopped seeing a settler a long time ago." "...Then what do you see?" His voice almost broke. "...The woman I'm terrified I'll have to lose."