The Enemy’s Breath: When Fate Binds Two Enemies to a Single Breath, Even Death Can No Longer Part Them

di Lucian Reef (Autore)

Lucian Reef, 2025

There was a war once, though history would later call it mercy. In that war, two men were meant to die on the same night—but instead, their lives were woven together by a curse that mistook vengeance for love and love for punishment. The first was Kairon, the Sun-King of Arios, whose commands could split armies and silence storms. He had loved a queen of light and buried her with his own hands. He had sworn an oath before her dying breath: that the man who killed her would never again know the peace of air in his lungs. The second was Thane, a soldier carved from the ashes of conquest, the blade that had ended her life to stop a greater slaughter. He had expected death, not the slow suffocation of survival. Yet when the curse found him, every breath he drew carried another man's heartbeat inside it—foreign, royal, and filled with hate. They tried to kill each other a thousand times. On the battlefield, beneath the shattered banners of two kingdoms, Kairon's sword always found Thane's pulse, yet never deep enough to still it. In every duel, the same terror: if one bled too long, the other gasped for air; if one slept, the other woke choking. The curse had bound them as twin lungs in one fragile chest, two enemies condemned to breathe in rhythm until forgiveness broke them or death did. They called it a punishment from the gods. But the gods were silent, and silence is its own kind of mercy. As the war cooled to embers, the kings grew tired of their own rage. They lived side by side out of necessity, learning the sound of the other's breath—ragged, human, unwanted, and increasingly essential. What began as a cage became something crueler: understanding. Kairon found himself counting Thane's inhalations as though they were prayers; Thane found peace in the spaces between Kairon's sighs. Hatred rotted into intimacy, and intimacy became a kind of worship that neither man could name. Still, they lied to themselves, calling it duty, calling it survival, never daring to speak the word that would make the curse real: love. But curses do not fade. They wait. When Kairon sought to end it—to separate their souls with one final act—he raised his blade not as a king but as a man terrified of peace. The steel sank in, and the world held its breath. For a moment, the air between them stilled; the heartbeat that had been shared for years trembled and fell silent. Yet in that silence came something almost divine: the realization that the curse had never been about vengeance, but about remembering what it means to be alive through another's pain. They died together as the wind rose and the sun broke over Arios, its light turning the battlefield to gold. The curse dissolved, the kingdoms fell, and in the hush that followed, the world exhaled—a soft, endless sigh that carried their names across the ruins. The Enemy's Breath is a tale of two souls chained by fate, a love born from ruin, and the slow, beautiful tragedy of learning that forgiveness is not peace, but surrender. It is the story of enemies who shared a single breath until even death could not part them, because love, once cursed, does not end; it merely changes the way the world breathes.

• Autore: Lucian Reef
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Lucian Reef
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232857110