The sun began to dip below the horizon, casting long, skeletal shadows across the cemetery as a final visitor approached. Kavin arrived silently, his usual arrogance replaced by a hollow, haunted look. He didn't say a word to the group; he simply knelt and placed a single, blood-red rose on the fresh earth. It was a silent promise to the girl who had never heard his full heart.
As Kavin stood back, the heavy silence of the funeral was broken by Enock. He wasn't looking at the grave anymore; he was looking at Mileh with a desperate, sobering clarity.
"Mileh, wait," Enock said, his voice raw. "I know you want to run. I know you want to erase the Armitage name from your life. But if you leave now, my father wins. He gets exactly what he wanted—to isolate us and destroy our legacy."
