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Her whispered nonsense replayed in his mind.Forward and reverse.Like putting together pieces of evidence for a knock-it-out-of-the-courtroom closing argument.“Your line?”
“I love you.I’ll never leave you.”Her voice shook with pain and absolute certainty.
Time didn’t stop.Vanquishing serial killer goblins, jump-starting a city’s power grid, even crossing realms didn’t change that.The daunting countdown for their return to Kradnovtl kept tick-tick-ticking.His skin still sizzled from the electrical overload.But when she said those words—those words he’d needed to hear so much—damn, if it didn’t feel like time stopped for him.
“Yeah?”So much for his big lawyer vocabulary.She’d finished frying what few brain cells the power line had left behind.
“Yeah.”The soft word was a promise of forever, a promise he would never lose her.
“Let’s go home.”
“We go through together.”She cradled the wicked crown close and stretched trembling, blood-soaked fingers toward the glass.“We stay together.”
“Long live my queen.”
