Let Them Kneel (kaelani and Julian) novel Chapter 188

Chapter 188

Barely above a whisper now-

“A family.”

Kaelani broke.

She lowered her forehead to his, tears slipping freely down her cheeks.

“I would have loved that,” she whispered.

Behind them, Jace swallowed hard, tears streaming down his face.

The courtyard had gone quiet.

Even the Unseelie stood in silence, some turning away, others watching with glassy eyes as grief settled over them all.

Kaelani lifted her head just enough to find his lips.

She kissed him.

Soft.

Tender.

Filled with everything they didn’t get to have.

Everything stolen from them.

When they parted, their eyes met again.

Everything beyond him fell away.

Julian’s lips moved.

“I love you…”

His voice was barely there now.

“You’re the girl… of my…”

The last breath faded through him.

“…dreams.”

His chest rose-

Then fell.

And did not rise again.

Kaelani froze.

For a single, suspended second-

Then she shattered.

A sob tore from her chest, her body collapsing over him as her shoulders shook violently, grief ripping through

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her in waves too strong to contain.

It felt like something inside her had been torn open-

Ripped apart-

Their bond snapping like a thread pulled too tight.

Her wolf howled.

Loud.

Broken.

Echoing the devastation clawing through her chest.

“No…” she cried, shaking her head, her voice splintering. “No…”

The world around her blurred into nothing.

She clutched him tighter, arms locking around him as if sheer force could keep him from slipping away again.

Her shoulders trembled.

Breath fractured.

Grief swallowing everything.

Then a hand touched her shoulder.

Gentle.

Warm.

Kaelani flinched at the contact, her head lifting slowly.

Her eyes narrowed immediately, squinting against the brightness.

Light stood before her.

Not harsh.

Not blinding.

But radiant.

Alive.

Lyressa.

She knelt beside her, the glow surrounding her soft and golden–like sunlight made flesh.

Her gaze fell to Julian.

Then returned to Kaelani.

“You returned what was taken from me,” she said, her voice quiet, carrying something deeper than gratitude. ” For that… I owe you more than words could ever repay.”

She lifted her hands.

Light gathered there–liquid, luminous–like drops of sunlight pooling in her palms.

“You also freed the light of those he tore from this world.”

Sorrow moved through her expression.

“The Seelie women whose lives he stole…”

For a moment, the world seemed to quiet for her alone.

“Their light found its way back… to me.”

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Her focus shifted to the court–the dying trees, the hollowed ground, everything Draevyn had drained of life.

She took it in.

All of it.

“I will use it to restore what was lost,” she said softly. “To breathe life back into this realm… into those who have lived too long in its absence.”

Her eyes came back to Julian.

A weight settled into the air.

Measured.

Deliberate.

“But…”

Her voice lowered.

Gentler now.

“I can spare some of it… for another purpose.”

Kaelani looked up at the Seelie Queen.

Confusion clouded her features, her brows pulling tight as she tried to understand.

“What…?”

Lyressa didn’t answer.

She simply moved.

Both hands pressed gently to Julian’s chest–over his heart.

And the light answered.

It spilled from her palms in a slow, radiant surge–golden and pure, seeping into him like warmth returning to something long abandoned.

His skin lit beneath her touch.

Not all at once.

Gradually.

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