In all the time Josephine had known Skylar, she had never seen him place this much importance on anyone.

Just who was this man named Jared?

What kind of person could make someone as distant as Skylar care this deeply?

Could he really be the same Jared they had encountered on the Celestial Stairway?

Her lips parted, the question almost slipping out—but when she saw how completely Skylar had withdrawn into silence, the words stopped at the edge of her tongue.

In the end, she swallowed them and kept everything to herself.

The confusion in her heart only deepened.