“I love you.” It was the first time he’d said it, but his words were so deliberate and his gaze so full of the echo of them that I couldn’t doubt it. “And she nearly took you from me. I would have killed her myself if you hadn’t, even if she took me down with her. You are my mate, Jack. My destined one. Nothing short of death itself can stand between us, and I’d fight that, too.”
