“Darling!” Xander came bursting up out of the stairwell at the corridor’s end and collided with her. His arms wrapped about her waist and the two spun in place as his mouth found her own. Evangeline was so shocked, she barely managed to kiss him back under the duress of the crumbling temple and the fact he looked like the absolute Abyss. “What happened to you?” she breathed, hands scrambling all over his skin, slick with blood and covered in welts. “No time, whole place is about to come down, but I promise to regale you later. Care to accompany me in fleeing?” But they were already running
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