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She was babbling and she could see hie of his wary need to shore up the battlements True to form

She grabbed his shirt in her hands

‘I love you, Edge I dare you to believe me and step off that cliff with me’

‘You always did enjoy tossing out dares, Sam’ His mouth softened into the sreen of his eyes

‘I dare you,’ she repeated and his hands swept down her back,to her backside as he raised her towards him

‘I love your posterior, Sam Every lush inch of it’

‘You shan’t distract e, and trust me to catch you’

‘I’ll crush you You nearly broke every bone in my body when you jumped off that temple And you definitely broke my heart’

She heard the catch in his voice, the need, the fear, the yearning

‘You broke mine, so we’re even Trust ether as perfectly as she had that first tio God, he tasted like heaven, like honey cakes and bliss and eternity

‘Sam, I adore you’

‘I dare you, love of my life Jump’

So he did

Epilogue

The sound of hae as he crossed the laards where Sa lazily on the water beside her Her hair was loose over her shoulder and he brushed it aside to kiss her nape, breathing in the scent of another world