Iberis Hyun has already decided how his story ends. Luke Illum refuses to read it that way.
The war took everything from Iberis — his family, his comrades, every reason he once had to keep breathing. Now the dying Major asks for only one to slip away quietly, with as little pain as the world will allow.
Luke Illum does not believe in quiet endings.
Uninvited and impossible to discourage, he forces his way into Iberis's shrinking world and refuses to leave it. He feeds him. He fights for him. He drags him, inch by stubborn inch, back toward a life Iberis stopped wanting a long time ago.
"I refuse to watch you die, Major." "Because I want you to live."
One man has surrendered to the end. The other will burn down everything between them before he lets it come. And somewhere on the fragile line between dying and living, two espers bound by something neither can name have to decide what kind of ending they're willing to fight for.
Perfect for fans sentinel/guide bonds, terminal-illness angst, fiercely devoted love interests, grumpy-meets-relentless dynamics, and slow burns that ache in the best way.
Guideverse · Sentinel/Guide · Terminal Illness · Devoted ML · Slow Burn · Hurt/Comfort · Heavy Angst