Shattered Vows and Broken Hearts novel Chapter 15

Chapter W

Sarah crossed the desert for days Through sand and rock, until she reached a place that didn’t exist on any map.

A classified research facility Deep space communications. Top secret

Once you entered, you didn’t leave.

Her skills got her in. half guard duty, half assistant to a physicist named Dr. Robert Wright.

The first time she saw him, he was buried in star charts and equations. White coat, messy hair, eyes too bright.

She learned the base. Learned the rhythm. In her free time, she read about the universe, origins, galaxies, signals from

deep space.

Robert didn’t say much, kept to himself, but he had that sharpness scientists get, the kind that notices things other people miss. And he’d picked up on something in the new security detail right away. This one carried grief like a second skin. Something hollow behind her eyes, like she’d had the life drained out of her.

But here’s the thing, he reminded him of space itself. Same quiet. Same way of holding everything without judgment.

Previous assistants had bristled at his single–minded focus, Not Sarah. She watched, waited, learned when to interrupt

and when to leave him alone,

Within a week, she knew his rhythms better than he did.

He decided she should stay. Permanently.

The best way? Give her the universe.

One day, he handed her headphones.

“Space is big. The things that trap us? Dust, in the scale of it all.”

She closed her eyes. A low hum filled her ears, a sound from across billions of light–years. Ancient. Calming.

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