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"Let’s say it is Let’s say I would breakthe priesthood for you Could you be faithful to me?"

"Just you and I?"

"You Me Eleanor The three of us, like we dreamed of that day"

"You aren’t serious"

"Pretend that I am," Søren said with unbroken eye contact And for a split second Kingsley almost believed him "This will be the one time I make you this offer You Me Eleanor The three of us Forever"

"Forever?"

"Eleanor agreed to forever Can you?"

Kingsley closed his eyes He could have Søren and the girl they drea time And he’d been free of Søren for eleven years now Only Søren? Only this girl he’d never sley said "You’re still a wolf"

Søren grabbed a towel off the stack by the steps He took a corner of it and dried Kingsley’s face If Kingsley could fall asleep right here, right nohen Søren was taking care of him, he could fall asleep and never wake up If he died now, maybe he could die alan as he squeezed water frosley’s hair "Was there ever a ti what God put you on this earth to do?"

"Once"

"When?"

"When ere lovers"

"Kingsley, be serious"

"I sley said "I’ve never met anyone more alone than you were back then Everyone was afraid of you No one ever talked to you They treated you like a leper You wanted them to"

"You didn’t"

"I was scared But I loved you ht in the hallhen you said you wondered why God had made you the way you are, you wondered what the reason was"