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Realization pierced the soft haze around her She’d wanted him so badly that her mind had produced him, a cruel joke for a woman who still had choices but couldn’t make the one she wanted most of all—to choose Dom
Walther grabbed her hair, jerking her to a standing position so she was in front of hiinary Doun in his hand Her pulse barely registered an uptick Still, seeing hi him was more than she could bear She didn’t bother to hold back the tears What did itwhen she’d lost Dom
“Put the fucking gun down or I’ll kill her,” Walther said
Both ier with hiuns on the floor
“You’re out of options, Henriksen,” iinary Dom said as he stood back up “We’ve already rounded up the other Fjende leaders Put the gun down, and you’ll walk away alive”
“Not in this lifetioing to stay right where you are, and in about ten secondsfrom a rope by sunset”
“Elle,” iinary Dom said, his voice like a salve to her wounds “Look at me”
She didn’t have the strength not to pretend it was the real Dom, so she did “I love you”
He smiled, but there was sadness in it “Drop”
She didn’t hesitate She fell back on what she’d learned during their training sessions and let her knees go loose In the same instant, a silver knife whistled over her head A wild screaun limp in his hand The knife buried to the hilt in what used to be his right eye The iathered her in his ar go of her, he sat down on the edge of the bed
Men dressed in fatigues storuns at the ready
“Call the doctor I don’t knohat they gave her, but she’s out of it,” iinary Dom told them
They gave her a few quick glances but followed orders, leaving her alone with theHe felt like the real thing If she’d had even a few , she would have believed he was the real thing She buried her face in his shoulder and wrapped her aro”
“I have to” He brushed a stray hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear, his actions a soft kindness in comparison to the hard hurt of his words Then he settled her down on the bed, laying her head on the pilloith utentleness, his blue eyes shiny “I can’t be your future, so I have to be your past”
“I love you” It came