DREALINES
AFTERLIGHT/IF I LOVED U TWICE
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Some people you love once.
Some people, the universe won't let you stop.
Kael has just lost everything - the woman he loved, the future they were building, the version of himself that believed things worked out. He isn't looking for a second chance. He isn't even looking for tomorrow.
Then he wakes up in the wrong century, in the wrong body, in someone else's armor - and sees her face.
She doesn't know him. She has never met him. She is a princess in a kingdom with its own wars, its own walls, its own carefully arranged future - and she is every inch the woman he lost, and nothing like her at all.
He can't tell her the truth. He can't stop watching her. And he can feel, somewhere in the back of his mind, the memories of who he used to be slowly going dark - like candles, one by one.
He has until the clock runs out to do the impossible: earn the love of a woman who has never met him, without ever explaining why he's so desperate.
But Yashvini has been surviving courts and kingdoms and very clever men for her entire life.
She's already noticed something is wrong with the commander who looks at her like she's already gone.
And she's already started asking questions.
*Afterlight* is a grief-driven time-slip romance about the cost of love, the price of staying, and the stubborn, irrational, completely human refusal to let go of someone who was already real.
It will not give you the ending you expect.
It will give you the one you needed
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