CHAPTER 8 — HEALING (ENDING)
Weeks later.
Sunlight filled a small apartment overlooking the river.
Grace held her twins for the first time without wires or monitors around them.
Lily.
Noah.
Alexander stood by the door, about to leave.
“Where will you go?” Grace asked.
He paused.
“Where I’m needed less.”
She shook her head slowly.
“You saved my life.”
He didn’t answer.
Instead, she said softly:
“You don’t have to disappear anymore.”
A long silence.
Then Alexander stepped back inside.
Just slightly.
Not fully.
But enough.
May you like
And for the first time in years—
Neither of them felt alone.
