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Then, when her wide gaze flicked to his, he pushed her up. Toward the surface. A powerful shove that had her rocketing toward air. Spluttering, she looked back down to see that he had really disappeared from the pipe this time. At least, she thought. An undine had helped her swim. He’d potentially saved her life.
“This isn’t real,” he told himself. “This is all in your mind.” “I am not real?” her voice still cackled, and then he heard her snarl in his ear, “I promise you this, Daios the Destroyer, you will kill her just as you have killed all of us. You are a monster, and you are unworthy of anything but the depths of the sea.”
“How could I? When your hair is the color of the sun on a cloudless day? When your smile warms the entire ocean around me? When I touch you, your soul is so familiar to me. It is like I have known you in a hundred lifetimes before this, and some part of me that I’ve forgotten wishes to bury itself inside you. It tells me to cling to the curve of your waist, to clutch at the feeling in my chest that lingers when you are near. My soul wishes to keep you and never let you go.”
Rocking her back and forth, he tried to get control over what he was feeling. But these emotions refused to be tamed or named in any way. They were a typhoon of madness and hope and relief and love. So much love. All of it shuddered through him as he pressed his lips to her head while she slowly woke in his arms. He’d found her.