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“You did?”
“I did. I would work there at my computer and play with the cats, as you very well know, you butt head. Achilles was next to me a lot.”
“It must have been your perfume.”
“I don’t wear perfume.” She sipped at her coffee.
“I could follow your scent through time and space.”
“And you did once.”
“I did. I would do it again.” He flipped three pancakes onto a plate, drizzled them with syrup, and plopped butter pats on top.
“And I would haul your heavy ass out of the darkness again in a heartbeat.” She started on her pancakes, and he grinned.
After he had eaten his stack, he took the dishes and asked, “Are you ever going to tell your sister how we broke out? How you cracked the Stronghold?”
“No. She doesn’t need to know. If I hadn’t already paid the price, I would never have thought to do it.”
“The blood was there. You used it.” He walked to her and wrapped his arms around her.
She sighed. “Thanks for taking his name away. I would have hated to have it in my mind all the time.”
“It was the only healing I could offer at the time. I am glad that your recovery is going so well.”
“You know why...”
“I do. The one child that was yours was taken by the same male who planted it. He took from you what was yours, and no one in that whole Stronghold would help you.”
“I still don’t know how I got to the gallery. Everything hurt. His blood on my hands and then falling.” She smiled grimly. “You caught me, handed me to Dante, and then launched yourself upward. Pieces fell down, and then I got us out of there.” She sighed. “It was a horrible night.”
“It got you free. It got our first males free. We put down roots, developed interaction as plain alphas, and are enjoying the outside world. It is fun.”
“So, two gallery events?”
“Well, one gallery and one museum. May I pick your outfits?”
“Sure, as long as you wear a jaunty hat for the Patchwork Pixie. I am thinking something with jingling bells.” She looked at him.
He grinned. “I can do that.”
She looked at him and imagined him and Dante in sprite hats and pointy shoes. She spent the rest of the day smiling and looking forward to a long and entertaining future with the two men who had given her the thing she needed most. Time.
