“Do you not know I would tear my heart from my chest before I would ever harm you?” Her moonstone eyes squeezed shut. A short, sobbing breath ripped from her. In devastation, Maddek sank to his knees. “What have I done, never saying this to you?” he said hoarsely. “Never telling you these words that I should have said over and over again. What have I done, that you do not know how I would ride across the world just to lay my gaze upon your face? That I would crawl there on the mere hope of knowing your touch again? What have I done, that as I kneel here, you still do not know that with my full
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