Chapter 83

**A Love Remembered, A World Apart**

The weight of her memories settled heavily on Athena's heart as each scene replayed in her mind, the joy and the pain of loving Lucifer, the desperate choice she had made, and the haunting emptiness that had followed. She felt like a puzzle piece forced into the wrong place—aware of the fit, yet conscious of the aching misalignment between what she felt and the world she was meant to inhabit.

Athena glanced over at Lucifer, his gaze fixed on her with an intensity that mirrored her own longing. They stood in a quiet glade where the boundary between their worlds seemed to soften, offering them this final space to speak freely.