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"Good plan Will these books be coedies?"

"Both Just like life"

"Will I be a hero in your stories? Or the villain?"

"Haven’t decided yet," Nora confessed "But I proh"

"Then that’s all I can ask"

"And after I give you the last laugh, I’ll put my pen away and I’ll fall asleep And when I wake up, you and I will be back together I’ll be fifteen again and you’ll be twenty-nine and it will all start over again--you and I That’s how I’ll know I’m in heaven"

"My Little One"

"I love you," she said, not able to go on any longer without hi the you All those times I said I hated you, I never meant them, not once I loved every part of you, every secret, every sin I love what you are and what you do and how you make me feel so scared and so safe all at the same time God, I wish I had my collar"

"You don’t need it I knoho you are, who you belong to"

"I promised you forever" Nora remembered that day in the police station when it seee fifteen, and this man, this priest, who said he would save her if she pro he told her to do forever Forever, she had said "Forever isn’t long enough"

"And I pro in return," Søren said Nora looked at the dagger in her hand, the gun at Søren’s head "Itired and you’re both starting to bore me Damon, if she doesn’t kill him in one minute, kill her"

Nora kissed Søren and he returned the kiss ardently, longingly, deeply, with such love it felt as if he kissed the very heart of her

"Don’t be afraid," he whispered against her lips "This life is nothing but one blink of God’s eyes He’ll blink again, and we’ll be back together"

"Are you sure I’ll go to heaven?"

"Of course It wouldn’t be heaven without you"

Marie-Laure reached down and pulled out Søren’s white Roman collar Brusquely she unbuttoned his shirt and pulled it open Seeing her touching hihtness in what she was about to do To let any hands other than hands of adoration, devotion and love touch Søren’s body seereatest aboivable sin Better to see hinity Better for the so close she would feel Søren’s last breath on her feet when he fell

Nora heard Da his clip