“Gods, Violet.” Shadows explode around us, cracking stone and decimating the wooden slab of a bed marked with my blood. Guess my face is just as beaten as the rest of me. “You came.” I stumble forward, and Dain is smart enough to let me go. Xaden catches me, shadows grasping his sword as he splays his hand over my back and cradles me against his chest with a light touch, like he’s afraid I might break. “There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, remember?” He drops his lips to the dirty, frayed, blood-spattered remains of my braid and kisses the top of my head.
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