Tangled Heart

ist. Ivy stood on the rooftop of Blackwood Tower, the same place where she and

flooded her, the weight of secrets, of stolen glances and shattered tru

e concrete. The weight between them is heavier than ever. The st

lace?" he asked quietly

urn. "Where

heavier than the skyline below. The storm had p

s both outside and within. Each scar had brought them closer to this

drian confessed. "Trying to protect

her voice steady. "

r once. "I was scared to let yo

wa

es, betrayals, even your father's death." it wa

ain and anger mixing. "

"And I thought keeping you from the tr

honesty into the open. The city lights blinke

ange the past. But maybe, we can

hand, fingers ent

agile smile bloo

d them, the subtle click of footst

from the far en

s Bla

brother. The stor

forward with a sneer, "the l

tinctively. "It ends when you st

s growled. "You always had e

is," Adrian snapped. "But I

ive if you keep fighting each other." You're both standing on the sam

d at her, th

can fix what ou

be we can start something b

them. The wind quieted,

Our father, he ruined people. Not just Ivy's father.

ut I'm not here to play judge

ge battling against the flicker of something else,

carry it forev

t this time, less like suffocation and mor

gaze flicking between them. "Ma

legacy, perhaps ready to rebuild. The wind whispered around them like a s

rer than they'd ever been. "Tha

ng his cheek. "Thank y

sn't out of fear or guilt. It was honest, r

city with new eyes. The world below hadn

But we're stronger than the secr

g as we face them together

across the sky in lazy arcs, and below the city stirred to life. Somewhere far b

ould

ian chose not to be defined by the past, but b

e edge of the future. Not as the broken

st sur

lde