“There’s nothing I have left to say to you. Or you to me.” Agony again rippled across his face, but she shut out what it did to her. What it did to her to see Aedion rise to his feet, groaning softly at some unspecified ache in his powerful body. For a few breaths, he just stared down at her. Then he said, “I meant every promise I made to you on that beach in Skull’s Bay.” And then he was gone.
