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"She was locked in a room, alone She had but one rule to live by: She could not look down to Camelot Then she saw Lancelot and she was powerlust not to look at him" Selena pressed up onto her toes, brushed the stubborn curtain of hair from his eyes "I would have to look"

It was a long ti and yet not touching, their gazes locked In the depth of his blue eyes, she saw his uncertainty and his fear, and it called out to her, made her understand for the first time that life was unfair, and that love could hurt

Lord, how it could hurt

His hands slid down the length of her arms, and she shivered at the intimacy of the touch "It killed her to look at him," he said softly

"Yes," Selena said si he saw the truth in her eyes She, too, would die to see the world Just once

"Jesus, Selena " He looked away froranite, hard and unforgiving But she saw the tremble in his jaw Instinctively she reached out, pressed her cold hand to his warm, stubble-coated cheek

She applied a gentle pressure, forced him to look down at her "Do not be so afraid, Ian I am not"

"You aren't afraid of anything"

"You are wrong I a you And I aain as you have looked at me in the past few days"

"And how is that?"

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He sank slowly to his knees, drawing her doith hiht curled around the It was as if there were no world beyond the that reat, starlit darkness

"I'm afraid, Selena" He said the words quietly "And I don't knohat in the hell to do about it"

She snuggled up to him His arms slipped around her, drew her close She tilted her face up to his Behind theht; the stars smiled down