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Lila nodded. “He talked about them that night. How he’s not like his father, he doesn’t want to just do his duty. That he wants to have a family for himself, not because of the Principate, or because he needs an heir, but just because he loves someone so much that he makes one. That’s what this would be.”
want you to kill people because of me.” He gave a barking laugh. “What exactly is it that you think I do with all my time? I kill people. I order other people to kill people. I train people to kill people. I sabotage and undermine people so that they will be killed, and I do it all because of you. Every word. Every life. Because of you.”
I love you. I will always love you. I will always take care of you.
“We had a good run, but we were never going to last.”
“Kaine …” She reached towards him. “You’re not a monster. You didn’t have any choice. Neither of us—we were both raped.” He jerked away, evading her fingers. “Don’t.”
Didn’t you get my note? I love you.” He flinched as if struck and started to shake his head, but she stilled him, forcing him to meet her eyes. “I do,” she said more firmly, her voice shaking with intensity. “I love you. And I always will. Always.” She rose up on her toes, pulling him closer, and kissed him. He stayed frozen when her lips touched his. “I love you,” she said the words against his mouth, as if breathing them into him.
“I’m sorry—I’m sorry—I’m so sorry for everything I did to you,” he said, his voice hoarse and broken. “I love you. You left, and I’d never told you.”
“We’ll go out together, won’t we, old girl? Bennet’s last two monsters.”
THE HIGH NECROMANCER, MORROUGH, ONCE known as the first Northern alchemist, Cetus, died on a spring day.