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I shift so that I’ on my arm

“Maybe you should keep it”

He eyes me curiously “You don’t want it?”

“No, I do Butmaybe we can share it”

A smile pulls at his lips “The easiest way to do that would be if ere married Then what’s mine would automatically be yours”

I know it’s fast I know it’s crazy But I can’t suppress the exciteht be nice”

He kisses the back of ive it some time? See if orks out here actually works in the real world?”

“Our world is real, Silas And anyway, I don’t want to live in a world without you in it”

He foldsin his warmth

“If you want to stay on the mountain, we’ll move into the cabin,” he says “If you want to live somewhere else and keep the cabin as a second home, that’s fine too You are my world now, Norah It doesn’t ether, we’re home”

Epilogue

Silas

Five years later

The arolides behind the distant hills We had some of the dead trees removed a few years back to create a small yard around the cabin One of the perks of fewer trees has been stellar views of the sunset

I flip the burgers and top the our three-hter, Thalia, in her arms