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The music starts to play and it’s just us two in the middle. Selliss sets me down and pulls me towards him. We lock eyes as our bodies flow with the rhythm of the music.
“This is nothing like the dance you showed me when we first met,” he says.
“Well, these little ones are to blame for it,” I say, noticing how we’re not really pressed together. My belly creates a space between us. “I think they’re going to take my attention away from you.”
He scoffs. “They’ll have to challenge me first. You’re my mate before I’m a father.”
“You say that now, but I’ve seen the others have a soft spot for their litter. Especially the girls.”
“Because girls are weaker. They need more care.”
I laugh almost in a snort. “You see? You’re already coddling them.”
“Whatever,” he mutters. His grouchiness doesn’t last. He leans down to kiss my forehead. “Still, it makes me incredibly happy that you’re carrying our children.”
“I know. I feel the same way,” I say. “But I have to say, I never imagined all of this happening.”
I look over at the people of Lodra and our surroundings. I once thought my only sight would be barren walls – isolated and lonely. Despite the initial circumstances, I’m glad they happened, otherwise, I wouldn’t have known this kind of love.
“My love?” Selliss turns my head up to him. “Are you remembering how things were… before?”
“I am, but if what happened then needed to happen for us to come to this… I would do it all over again.”
He smiles in relief. “I hope you don’t regret being with me?”
“Not for a single moment.”
“I love you eternally, Maya. Never leave my side,” he utters, leaning down to my lips.
“I wouldn’t even think about it. I will love you even in my next life,” I say as I close the kiss, sealing our everlasting love.
33
DRANSA
“We never should have trusted a traitor. This was bound to happen.”
Kryon mutters this as we stand on the border between Yadat and Lodra and watch the stragglers try to make it across the border, back into their homeland.
There are only three of them, and they’re badly injured. Some of my men rush forward to drag them into Yadat and take them to get medical assistance.
“Yes,” I growl through gritted teeth. My hands are balled into fists, and my hood is flared as rage surges through me. “We should never have trusted him.”
Part of me still cannot believe this. That Selliss betrayed us the way he did.
And all for a human woman.
But then again, Kryon is right. Selliss showed us his true colors simply by showing up and abdicating his responsibilities in Lodra.
“And all for a human woman,” Terrian echoes my thoughts, spitting the words, his face twisted with shock and disgust.
“Kriseri is going to want blood for this,” I respond and rub my hand forcefully over my tired face.
It is close to dawn and we’re all exhausted, but there is no one else to do the night patrol, as we’ve just lost about twenty soldiers to Lodra’s forces.
“Kriseri is going to want our heads,” Terrian says heatedly. “We should have killed Selliss the minute he set a claw across the border. We let him in, ergo we’re responsible for this mess.”
We stay on our patrol shift for a few extra hours, until reserve soldiers are called up to relieve us.
