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‘You can’t help defending me, even when you don’t know from what’

‘Defend first, reason later, that is ainst the pillows in the dark ‘Are you glad you accepted my proposal?’ she blurted out

His fingers threaded through her hair, tucking it behind her ear and co back to cup her face It was like the way he’d touched her in the darkened square, but different She had no idea what to make of all this

‘I was just congratulating htened, his so away yet Stay with me

‘Are you glad I accepted your proposal?’ His voice was turning tentative, losing its dreamy warmth ‘I know these weeks haven’t been easy I haven’t been easy’

‘Yes, yes, I a I have done’

He wrapped his arms around her and she sank into them Not that it was easy to sink into rock, even warm rock He was so tense She kneaded the arm closest to her and it softened just a little She breathed him in, deep, so deep a whole world ca her, the arh she’d come to live inside him Safe, alive, happy

Home

Edge

In her mind her arms opened wide because the truth was too enormous to hold

I love you, Edge Love you I always have You were always mine and never were

She lost the i with knowledge and hurt

‘Sam?’ The whisper fluttered the hair at her teainst hiathered her closer, his breath war her back in that way that made her want to purr

It should be enough, she told herself This He does care Maybe not the way she wanted hiht now Maybe with tirow Or not

She needed it to grow

She touched herthe words swirl inside her, but keeping them close so they didn’t escape Patience She needed patience It was little more than a month and a half since he’d scared the devil out of her on the Howling Cliffs and already he’d changedno, not changed, just opened the door for her a little, each time a little more