“I’m not a good man. You and I both know that, but she’s a good woman. She’s everything I didn’t know I needed. Please, please,” I begged, falling to my knees as slight pain shot up my thighs from the hard stone beneath me. I coughed again, but that didn’t stop me from holding my arms out wide. “You can take me,” I wept to the God I’d stopped believing in. “Let me save her and take me!” The smoke was getting to me, and I fell forward, landing on my palms. My head hung and tears fell from my eyes. “Take the broken cowboy, spare his enchantress.” My voice was cracking, and my head was spinning.
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