My heart thundered, but I said, “I have one last Solstice gift for you.” Rhys went still at my soft voice, the tremble in it. “Oh?” Our hands linked, I caressed the adamant walls of his mind. The barriers immediately fell, allowing me in. Allowing me to show him that last gift. What I hoped he’d deem as a gift, too. His hands began shaking around mine, but he said nothing until I’d retreated from his mind. Until we were staring at each other again in silence. His breathing turned ragged, his eyes silver-lined. “You’re sure?” he repeated. Yes. More than anything. I’d realized it, felt it, in
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