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cellus told land And we both knew there was nothing that could have kept you from me once it was revealed that I lived, Emily We did it to protect you I did it to protect you And I will be daret it”

He grimaced as he cupped her cheeks “I couldn’t risk you Marcellus could not risk you”

She tried to jerk fro her to aze

“Forgive us”

Tears streamed down her face in torrents Even now she could feel the echoes of the grief that had held her so tightly “Marcellus saved me He comforted ave me purpose when I felt eony, and he knew you lived”

She dreay from him when she realized she felt as if Marcellus had betrayed her h her heart was due e at Maxwell’s decision as well, but for so more

“If you have the capacity to forgive ed at iveness I placed him in an untenable situation I command his loyalty, and you command his heart, and I forced him to break it”

“I cohter was filled with incredulity “You speak so casually of your brother loving me”

The expression that swept across his face had desire pooling low in her loins Her heart stuttered as she analyzed him “Marcellus loves me?”

“Yes”

She shivered and wrapped her arms around her waist “As how a man loves a woman?”

“Yes”

“And you accept this?”

“Yes”

She closed her eyes, unable to aze “And you know that he fucked me”