Chapter 213 — The Yes That Wasn’t a Yes…

In the candlelit dining room, the silence became delicate, almost sacred, as Ayden slid the ring onto Milagros’s finger.

She was trembling.

So was he… but not for the same reason.

He trembled with emotion.

She trembled because of everything that gesture was about to break inside her.

And still, the ring fit.

It fit perfectly.

As if it had been waiting for that place all its life.

As if it were not a decision made in that moment… but something that had al