“I remember, Sera,” he said, and the words seemed wrenched from him, as well, impossibly so. She could still hear his vow never to have a child. She could still feel the sting of it now, years later, and the ache of it after she discovered he would have one, nonetheless. Just as she could still feel the quiet happiness that had consumed her when she’d known she would never be alone, even if she never had him. And then, the devastation when she realized that alone was all she’d ever be. “Let me go,” she whispered, the words ragged, shot through with fear that he might resist them. That he might
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