Chapter 192: My Brother, Hello

Tara’s POV

He kissed me and all else faded.

The months of the all-consuming pain and the grief that had made such a home in my heart packed its bags, no longer lingering at the door so as an unwelcomed guest. Something in me healed as his lips touched mine, something that bespoke of a horizon dawning on a new world.

Victor was in my arms in this world, and I in his, and all our enemies had conceded their words and their weapons and their anger. No longer we were fighting a war that we had not started. Here, in this moment instead, we were free to love one another as we saw fit.

Sidus had disappeared when we broke apart, his weak will and poisonous words no match for the truth and the forgiveness that we had shared between one another.

I stared into Victor’s eyes, and there were tears dripping from them, heartbroken and pained. I loathed so many of the days I had spent hating him, believing that he had not loved me, believing that I had not been enough even for him.