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The meadow sprawled in honeyed gold, the sun so low it stitched long, wavering shadows among the wildflowers. A warm breeze stirred the grass, carrying the scent of summer and distant pine, and there, cradled in the lap of you, lay Serephine—their first daughter, swaddled in soft linen, her small chest rising and falling with each breath. The afternoon hummed with the distant clash of wooden swords, the laughter of boys whose wings beat uselessly at the air under the watchful gaze of Azriel, Cassian, and Rhys. But here, in the quiet, you traced a finger along her daughter's cheek, memorizing the curve, the dark eyes that mirrored Azriel's, the hair touched with her own gold. A shadow pooled at her back—Azriel, kneeling, his arms bracketing her, his chin settling on her shoulder. He sa…