“I’ve waited far too long to do that,” he said in a low tone as my skin continued to buzz and spark from that kiss. “And now I realise how much time I’ve wasted thinking I would always have you, thinking there was no deadline on us. But I didn’t want to break what we have. You’re my friend first, Ever, but I have to lay an offering of more than that on the brink of our parting, otherwise the regret will feast on me from the inside out. But I want you to train first, to chase your desires and land within the fate you have long been owed, and then and only then, will I ask you to be mine.” He
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