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‘Yes,’ Edge said at last ‘Yes, you are I aain I wish you happy, Sam Will you wish me the same?’

‘Always’ That was the truth, whatever the pain

‘God in heaven, how’ He actively strangled the words, his fingers pressing into the flesh of her upper arers into his i the lapels as if she could knead the very fabric of time and space and force it to her will She rose on tiptoes and touched her lips to his cheek He had not shaved and the stubble caught on her lips and this sign of iave a little cry, a puff of a wail against his flesh He turned his head, just catching it briefly with hisher breath from her

His ling puzzle It was so right

And then she was free again

She forced herself to speak the dreaded words, proper at last ‘My congratulations on your upco nuptials Godspeed’

This time he didn’t answer as she left the veranda and one as he had said

But then Edge had always been a man of his word

Chapter One

‘No one passes through the Valley of the Moon and ees unscathed’

—Lost in the Valley of the Moon,