DeLuca doesn’t waste a beat. Doesn’t hesitate. He captures my head with his hands and looks me in the eye. “I have no life without you, Aislinn Theodora. No family. No friends. No home. You are everything. If we can make Erebus mortal, we can make me mortal too. I don’t want any of this without you. I’d rather live eighty years with you than an eternity alone with nothing but a beautiful memory to haunt my every waking moment.”
