Cyrus

"You're not who I expected you to be," he murmurs, his fingers tracing lightly along the curve of my cheek. His touch is hesitant, almost reverent, as if I might disappear. "I've waited so long for you... and now that you're here, I wonder if I will be enough."

His silver eyes hold a sadness I don't understand, something ancient and unspoken.

A strange warmth floods my chest, a whisper of a memory just out of reach. I want to pull away. I want to run.

But I don't.

Because something inside me knows-this moment has happened before.

And the last time, I chose him.

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In a world where the Sun is revered as the divine protector and the Moon is feared as a vengeful force, Renee has spent her life struggling against a fate she does not understand. Cast out by her family for refusing to conform, she is forced to survive on her own. But when a mysterious man with piercing silver eyes offers her a chance at work and shelter, she unknowingly steps into a web of secrets older than time itself.

Sylas, a man with golden eyes and a presence that demands devotion, takes an interest in her. He offers her comfort, promises of a brighter future-yet something about him feels wrong. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Soren lurks in the shadows, watching, waiting. There's a familiarity to him, an unexplainable pull she cannot resist. And as flashes of lost memories begin to surface-memories of a love she cannot recall-Renee realizes that her destiny is far greater, and far more dangerous, than she ever imagined.

One of them is using her. The other has been waiting lifetimes for her to remember.

But fate is not kind, and the truth will change everything.