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“You buried me. But do you know what seeds do when they’re buried?” I wheezed out. “They grow.”
“I was in the dark for a long time. I almost rotted there. But not anymore.”
He searched my gaze for a long moment, then lowered his hands. “I am yours to command.” Five words had never stolen my breath quite like that.
But I’d picked and picked and she’d done something, and now we’d torn him in two.
“So much hope. Such a human affliction. Are your lives too short for you to learn that it’s a fruitless sentimentality to cling to?” Sighing, he shook his head and peered upward. “Still, you burn brightly, and such a life force has its uses.”
“Dying for something important is better than surviving for nothing.”
“It’s a splintered handhold that stabs rather than saves.”
“It will be a life lived truly and a life truly lived.”
