A semblance of Peace

Ember's POV

I was busy smiling as people offered their congratulations. This was lovely and I didn't want to change it for the world. I was happy, Trent was also happy. Finally we were going to be able to deal with naysayers in the form of Ellie.

Surprisingly too, Ruel didn't return, Sonia was normal and it seemed like life had normalized. "Do you feel that?" Trent whispered to me and I looked up only for him to catch my lips with his.

I smiled at him, letting it slide because I was happy. Life was finally good, I was free from the doctor's unnerving stare.

"Feel your heartbeat as you love to say?"

"Nah, I don't say that." he joked and I smiled at him. "You have such beautiful eyes. We said that we weren't going to invite a lot of people but guess who has a lot of visitors downstairs? We."

I sighed, "I don't feel too good with a lot of people present. Do you know who is out to hurt them? This time around too, I won't be allowing anyone to move around their perimeter."

He hummed and