CHAPTER THIRTY:The Names We Knew Before Time

Elianah

She stood at the edge of the world.

Or what was left of it.

A field of stars beneath her feet, the sky folding above like a page half-read.

Elianah didn't know how she got here. But she knew what she was meant to do.

The wind whispered through her, not around her — carrying voices that didn't belong to this time.

And then...

She felt it.

A pulse.

A breath.

A name returning to her mouth like it had been waiting centuries to be spoken.

"Kael."

He was already there when she turned.

Not older. Not younger. Not different.

Just… him.

The way her soul always remembered.

"You found me," he whispered.

"No," she smiled through tears. "You waited."

They stood in silence as the stars above them began to fall — not as destruction, but as rebirth.

Each one, a life they had shared.

Each one, a version of them.

A poet and a priestess.

A soldier and a healer.

Two rebels, two royals, two strangers on a train.

And now — just two souls, bare and remembering.

"I remember everything," Elianah breathed.

"So do I," Kael said.

And when they kissed, it was not just lips meeting.

It was time collapsing.

It was fate sighing.

It was love — pure, infinite, and finally, whole.

Aislen, watching from the waking world, woke in tears.

Kael, across the city, looked up from his canvas — and for the first time in months, smiled without reason.

Selene and Soren lit candles they couldn't name the purpose of — only that it felt right.

And the world?

The world whispered:

"They've remembered."

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End of Volume Two

The Lives I Loved You In

Volume Three will begin where destiny dares to finish what fate once scattered — where soulmates step beyond memory and into mission.