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“It makes you the woman I love,” he said.
“Is there anything else you want to tell me? I said. “Any other little secrets?”
“None. Except for the fact I’m head over heels in love with you.”
Okay, so that made me smile.
He reached up and kissed me on my cheek.
“What happens now?” I said.
“First, they want to give me better rooms to live in,” he said.
“Well, that’s a nice perk.”
“We won’t be here for long. We have to plan our attack. When we do, we’ll wipe the Changelings off the face of this planet and a thousand others before the week is out.”
Wow. It was pretty hot to be dating someone so powerful.
He drew me to my feet and we embraced. Then I wagged a finger at him.
“Don’t think I’m going to fall to my knees every time you come into the room.”
I gave him a wink.
“Except when I want to,” I said.
He hugged me again.
I was now dating an emperor.
This was sure going to make buying gifts difficult.
5
FIATH
I marched down the long winding tunnels toward the war room. Today, we would be making plans for how we would strike back at the Changelings on this planet.
Titans going about their business stopped in their tracks and immediately dropped to their knees and prostrated themselves, taking up too much space and making it difficult to step past them.
I would have to speak with the chieftains about encouraging the Titans not to bow to me. Not when we were preparing for war.
My life had returned to normal. It both made me happy, as it was a return to what I was used to, and sad at the same time.
The difference was Hazel by my side.
I meant what I asked her the previous day in the great hall before I revealed myself. If she wanted to leave right then and there, I would never have looked back. I would have taken her to the farthest reaches of the galaxy where no Titan lived.
We could have lived out our lives anonymously. I was already dead in the minds of every Titan. What difference did it matter?
All I needed was her.
Instead, she had chosen another route. For us to make a stand and fight our conquerors. The best way for me to do that was to reveal who I was and become the beacon I was born to be.
My honor guard consisted of the strongest, most well-trained Titans of each clan.
I would have much preferred a group of friends who’d fought side-by-side with each other through many battles. They would fight not just to protect me, but each other.
