Chapter 87. Two Men

Adeline’s POV

I just needed to clear my head.

The woods felt like the only place that could hold my heavy thoughts without asking questions.

So, I walked—alone, slow, with no particular direction.

Just the quiet trees, the hum of the evening wind, and my own heartbeat. There was peace here. Stillness.

A kind of space I couldn’t find in the hospital or among the gazes that followed me everywhere I went.

Before me stood two men… and two offers.

Theodore had arranged a dinner for King Ezra. I was meant to sit beside him, like his Luna. I still was, technically.

Nothing had been undone yet.

And then there was Ezra—his offer still hanging in there, unanswered. I hadn’t rejected him. But I hadn’t told Theodore I wouldn’t be at the dinner either.

I just… needed to clear my heart, to make space for whatever truth it was trying to tell me.

When Theodore had come close to me earlier, something moved inside me.

I fe