even spring blooms ⇒ b. barnes (4)

The world ended in silence.

In the aftermath of the Snap, and the loss of James Barnes, Dahlia was left with more than grief.

She was left with the truth.

The truth of who she had been before the war, who she became in the KGB's hands, and the violence that still lived beneath her skin.

With the man who anchored her gone, there was nothing left to outrun.

Only memory. Only reckoning.

Five years later, James Barnes returned.

But the world he came back to was not the one he had once knew. The world was quieter. The Avengers were scattered, most of them gone.

And Dahlia was sharper. Harder. Whole in ways that frightened him. Whole in ways that left no room for the past they never got to finish.

He loved her. She loved him.

The battle between them should have stopped there.

But it didn't.

Not until one of them surrendered.

And for two soldiers...

It was easier said than done.

𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏

APART OF THE ❝SONG OF SEASONS❞ SERIES

1. Even Winter Softens ✓ [17 chapters]
2. Even Summer Withers ✓ [15 chapters]
3. Even Autumn Fades ✓ [57 chapters]
4. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬