“I don’t want this, Kaid.” A new and primal fear grew in my chest. “I don’t want her to take me. I want us.” I gestured between our chests. “Again, and again and again. I want to grow old with you. Not die here alone.” For that’s what I’d be with Hreinasta. Alone for decades, locked inside my own body. “Then let me take you from here.” Kaid leaned back just enough to look me in the eye and grabbed my thigh, hiking it over his hip so that our bodies remained joined. “I’ve been wanting to ask if you’d run away with me, but I was afraid to voice my desire.”
