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"What’s wrong?" River asked, looking at e to reply was:

"We need to get you to The Shade"

Chapter 7: Rose

Caleb and I sat on the steps of our nificent view of the island The ocean in the distance shiht and a cool breeze rustled the leaves of the redwoods We planned to move into a new penthouse soon, near the Residences with the other va this ray ships s in The Shade had been peaceful since our wedding and the departure of the dragon prince I wasn’t going to coh dra of hot chocolate, while Caleb took the last draught frolass of blood We sat in silence, content with each other’s presence

I glanced down at the beautiful ring on er It was still bizarre to think that I was married

Married

I looked sideways at lazed as he looked out toward the ocean in the distance

"What are you thinking about?" I asked softly, leaning in and resting ainst his shoulder He wrapped an arh as he pulled s" He averted his eyes away frolint in his gaze "One of theer do I have to wait for you to finish that hot chocolate so I can take you to bed?"

His gaze gave me butterflies He hadn’t been able to keep his hands off ed vows While previously he had been restrained, he was certainlyup for it nohich sure suited me

I sloshed the liquid in the cup It had cooled by now I sed the last two mouthfuls within the space of a few seconds, then showed him the e hi around my back and beneath my knees, he swept me up into his ar the door behind us, he headed straight for the bedroo hiabout was… our honey back toward the headboard and sitting upright "Oh?"

"I know you said that you don’tanywhere is going to be difficult But it doesn’t have to be" He reached for the nearby table and slid open the top drawer He pulled out a sheet of paper filled with sketches and various mathematical notes It all looked rather coram in the center of the paper as he sat next to me and spread the sheet out on the e boat, about twenty-five feet long and eighteen feet wide according to the notes, and a shelter of so exactly?" I asked

"You’ve never visited New Zealand, have you?"

My pulse quickened in exciteo on a little tour, stopping by some of the most remote islands in the Pacific Ocean, and make our destination New Zealand?" His brown eyes war that I’ve been working on Ibrahiine If it all coht explore the land"