We Choose Each Other

# Chapter 1## ELARAThe wards on their house had failed.Elara noticed it before Theron even pulled the travel-worn horses to a stop—the faint shimmer that should have greeted them at the property line was gone, dissolved into nothing during the four months they'd been away. The protective boundary she'd woven before they left, carefully layered with intent and her own blood, had unravelled into mer...