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“Not really, but there is a chance that I will see more of what you want to know if you want me to see the past, rather than the future”

“Good”

“What is it do you want to know?”

“There was adown, but he died before we could get inforue with Crystal…” She shook her head “But now I know that wouldn’tyour visions could help us identify any other enemy we have out there”

“If you could bring me any item from the scene of his death, I may be able to help” They stopped in front of Zari’s bedrooirl murmured, “I have never played ht thing…”

Zari opened the door and stepped inside her room “Come and look, Soleil”

Soleil winced “I really, really don’t like how that sounds” But even so, she forced herself to follow Zari inside

Zari gestured to the tower ofdesk “Those are all fro s I should tell you e to ers “He is sorry He misses you Oh, and that you are the only woman he loves and will ever love”

“Hoeet” Soleil’s s”

“Is he? After all, he did not say you are the woman he had loved He speaks of the present and the future, not the past” Zari flashed the older girl a painful s I actually had to look the word up just so I could find the right way to describe him And he is that” She nodded vehemently “He knew about the time when I also almost parted ith my Ma—-with Alexandru, because of a woman he had once loved, and when he reminded me of that…” She shook her head “I don’t want you to be needlessly hurt Just forgive him—-”

Soleil’s teary laugh cut her off

“You think I haven’t forgiven him? You think that is what this is all about?” She sed “How can I not forgive him when he’s saved my lifehim, and I doubt I ever will until…” She bit her lip “The reason I can’t make , and he so he was forced to lie about lovingme as his heartkeeper He didn’t know then that it would be for forever My curse ensures that whoever terminates the union will die, and he didn’t know that when he saved me” Tears ran down her face “He saved me, and in return I have forever closed the door on any chance of hi the other woman as his heartkeeper—-”

Zari protested, “But she already belongs to the demon duke—-”

“If Alexandru belongs to so him?”

Zari paled

“Exactly” Soleil srace and his heartkeeper are in love now, but hoe knoon’t change? Hoe know thatIlie—-” She took a deep breath “The marquis will not even entertain such an idea, of course, not only because of his honor and his friendship with the duke, but because he thinks it will hurt me” Soleil’s fists clenched “That’s why I’ve decided to request for the spell that would permanently erase my memories of him”

Her heart ached at the words

She thought about the leam in his silver eyes—-

She thought about the way they danced in the ball

She thought about the way he sounded when he asked her to be his heartkeeper

Be my heartkeeper, ma lisse