“Where do you see yourself in five years, Leland?” I groaned. “Not this question again.” “Answer me, please,” he said seriously, his eyes roaming my face anxiously. I placed a palm over his chest, feeling his frantic heartbeat under my fingertips. “Why stop there?” I asked. “Why not half a century?” “How about several millennia?” he whispered. “I think I like the sound of infinity more,” I whispered back. “Where do you see yourself in this lifetime, and every lifetime after, Leelee Bear?” I swooped in impossibly close, holding his face and his gaze the way he held mine, and I gave him the same
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