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“He’s not going to let …” Her chin drops, but she doesn’t cry She only holdsmy palms with her thumbs

“I won’t give up on this Even if we run out of tiure out a way to enter the underworld and carry you back to me”

A sad little sates of hell?” She’s still looking at our hands, and her feelings are changing to sadness, despair

“Dao back there”

Her slilances up at me then “You never told me what happened Why were you cut off from your pack?”

Shahtens my throat I never wanted to tell her this story

“But you can,” she speaks to hts “Never be ashamed with me”

“You hear hts?”

Another tiny smile, and she nods “Can you hear mine?”

“No I only sense your feelings”

“It’s probably for the best” She reaches up and lightly touchesdone if you kne badly I want to kiss you all the time”

Leaning down, I capture her beautiful lips I’ back “Tell me what happened I need to know”

Straightening, I clear my throat “I was a boxer when I lived in the east A chaht”

That makes her smile “A champion”

“My shifter reflexes probably helped I was a shit, taking unfair advantage” Looking down, I don’t want to elaborate on just how arrogant an asshole I was “My best friend and I were at a bar one night He was pissed about some match up he’d been snubbed for…”