Buried first love

Kirelle's POV

The air in the apartment is charged with an energy I can't quite place.

Viper and Emmaline are seated on the plush couch, engaged in conversation with Tristan. My twin brother, Korin, and I stand awkwardly by the door, observing the scene with a quiet kind of reverence.

Korin, usually quick with a joke or an easy smirk, is awestruck. I can feel it radiating from him. And honestly? I understand.

I had seen pictures of Emmaline Morne before. The fortress's media always fawned over her, their golden darling though she's got as much hate as she does adoration—the only daughter of Richard Morne, heiress to one of the greatest fortunes in Sector A. The reality, however, is something else entirely.

She is breathtaking.