The path to the restaurant stretched beneath the soft shade of towering palm trees that swayed as if welcoming them. The air was warm and alive, but the ocean breeze brushed gently against their skin, making everything feel lighter—as though Seychelles, in all its natural generosity, had chosen to receive them with tenderness.

Liam walked beside Olívia hand in hand, his thumb lazily stroking her skin in an automatic gesture that was possessive, intimate, and full of silent complicity. The sound