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I slowly rose on the bed, the sensations frohhave I been asleep?"

"A little over an hour… What was the dream about?"

I tried to recall every detail of the dreaan to stream down my cheek and I broke into a sob

Aiden didn’t seem to knohat to do at first, so for the few seconds I was bawlinghis wits about hi ht…"

"Onehis love forer…" I explained in between sobs

"It was just a night…"

What I couldn’t explain in detail to his I couldn’t help but tre th fro me "I can’t lose hiainst your relationship with Derek, but much as I hate to admit it, the "

That’s because you haven’t actually seen Emilia and her effect on him "What if he does? You don’t know Eht? What if she’s actually the girl prophesied to help hi the vampires to true sanctuary?"

My father’s words ca balm to my afflicted soul "It won’this heart"

I leaned ainst his shoulder and let those words sink in I couldn’t allow myself to be disheartened For myself and Derek’s sake… "Thank you…" I whispered to entle kiss on the cheek

We sat there for a while I relished his coether I was certain that it would be one of my most cherished mo that I meant it "You know that, don’t you?"

He s me on my temple "I love you too, Sofia"

We walked out of the roo over who had to prepare snacks for the both of us

"I want us to be a faan to prepare our food at the kitchen

"I want that too More than anything," he responded

I s… Camilla another chance if you want me to"

"That means the world to me, Sofia I’ve heard so many stories about you here in The Shade and I know they’re true You’re soain"

"Maybe I got that fro that I could feel so light and casual and trusting around hied as I sliced through a piece of cheese "The urge to find beauty within people and to try and create it when it’s not there"

"I’m not like that at all" He looked perplexed

I chuckled at how little he knew about himself "You knew that my le day"

His face softened and his eyes began to brier to see what it would be like to have ot the chance to, because at the very nexttoward me with determination in her eyes

I had no doubt in my mind that my mother was about to kill me

Chapter 32: Aiden

I’d already lost count of all the tiet used to it I was even expecting it, steeling myself for when it would happen, but when I saw her with that dagger raised in the air, poised to kill our only daughter, an to see red and every ounce of love that could’ve heldCamilla disappeared I wasn’t about to watch hter Not in a million years

Without any hesitation, I pulled out the one gadget I was able to hide from my captors in the Shade It was a blow dart that would inject a serum into Caency purposes, for when I would need it to save hter’s life I would be saving instead