When they returned to the apartment, Celina thanked Gabriel for dinner, held his gaze for a lingering moment, and slipped into her room. There, behind a locked door, she let the tears fall silently. She didn’t know how to handle the growing warmth she felt for Gabriel while still carrying the tangled feelings she had for Thor. She felt caught in an emotional limbo, torn between what she longed to forget and what she still needed to face.

Celina realized her greatest battle wasn’t with the exhau