Chapter 61 – The Rogue's Redemption

The forest near the borderlands remained untouched by celebration. Unlike the heart of Black Hollow, where laughter and unity echoed, the outer regions were still cloaked in silence. Some scars took longer to heal. Garrick stood at the edge of the ravine where he'd once plotted Selene’s downfall. The place was unchanged—the jagged cliff, the roaring river below—but the man who now stood here was no longer the rogue prince who had thirsted for power at any cost. He had lost everything—his followers, his title, and the illusions he once clung to. What remained was raw. Unforgiving. Real.