His face snapped up, and in two strides, Keris closed the distance between them, wrapping her in his arms. “I wish I could hate you,” he said into her hair. “Because then I could watch you walk away and not feel like…like…” She felt him shake his head. “If there are words for how I feel about you, I’ve never heard them. Never seen them written in any of the thousands of books I’ve read.”