CHAPTER ELEVEN
Thanos walked the island with Ceres every morning now, enjoying the bright sunlight on Haylon, the industry of the people working on defenses there. Enjoying just being with her. They’d only been on the island a few days, and already, it was starting to feel as though the island was the only place for the two of them. The perfect place.
Maybe they would be there forever. That thought had been coming to him more and more since they’d arrived. The thought had been growing too, turning into something more than a dream, until it had become something hard and real and certain.
They were currently touring the defenses with Iakos again, standing on the cliffs, watching men labor to build artificial rock formations while the tide was low.
“If they try to come up on our beaches u
