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It was amazing, truly, how much an already broken heart could still continue to break.
“You will say yes,” he thundered at her. “You will, Timoney.”
And she knew what he would do even as he did it. He swept her into his arms again, and carried her inside.
It was only back in the heat of his flat that she noticed how cold she’d become. When he laid her out on the bed and followed her down, and the passion she knew she would hold close to her heart for the rest of her life exploded anew.
He warmed her the way he always did.
“You will,” he promised her as he drove deep inside her, making them both groan.
“I won’t,” she replied, wrapping herself around him, putting her mouth to his ear. “But I will tell you goodbye, Crete. Every way I can.”
And that was what she did.
With every part of her body, her heart, her soul. Again and again, in all the dark before dawn they had left. Because she knew that once the sun rose, reality would reassert itself, as little as she might want it to.
But first it was this. First there was them.
First there was a small taste of forever that would have to last her in place of the real thing.
