“You’ve misunderstood. When I said I changed my mind, I meant about sending you away. About destroying our life together.” I go so still; I think my heart might stop beating. “You could have let me die,” he says. “You could have let Leandros—I mean, Xanthos—kill me and then ruled as queen with him. But you didn’t. You killed him. You killed for me. “But I knew before then. I was hurt, yes, but I was going to come back for you right before Xanthos approached me. I was in my mother’s sitting room, because I tried to imagine a future where that room wouldn’t be yours, and I couldn’t.” He rises
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