Page 68 of The Cruel Dark


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I raised my head to gaze into his eyes, golden in the dappled sun.

“I may be the luckiest woman alive,” I said.

“And why’s that?”

“Because I got to fall in love with you twice.”

His expression softened with adoration, my words touching him, filling his eyes again for reasons far removed from grief, and he kissed me. It was a kiss of beginnings, and it held its own kind of magic.

“Tell me your secrets, Mrs. Hughes,” Callum said, drawing me closer.

“Tell me yours.”

“I’ve never been happier in all my life than I am now.”

“Is that a secret?”

“No,” he laughed. “It isn’t. At last, I don’t have any.”

I rested my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes again, letting spring and the man I loved warm me through.

“Neither do I,” I replied.

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