CHAPTER 64
~Amias's Point Of View~
Amias has seen plenty of girls dressed for the Moon Blessing ceremony. He's endured a parade of silks, satins, lace stitched to suffocate necklines, and colors so violently bright that his retinas practically begged for mercy. But when Heidi steps into the courtyard with Daphne, time doesn't so much stop as it jerks. It jerks the way a horse pulls back when it realizes there's a snake in the grass. It does it violently, abruptly, impossible to ignore.
She's wearing emerald green, the shade of moss after a fresh rain, the kind of green that belongs to forests and secrets. And the sunlight… curse the damned sunlight—it slides over her shoulders like it knows it has a job to do. Nature itself seems in on some private joke: look, here's the girl you've been pretending not to notice, wrapped in green and gold like the Moon Goddess handpicked her.
