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“I have never felt this … joy.”
“I am yours, War,” I say. “Now and forever.”
His other hand moves to my stomach. “The baby?” There’s such concern in his voice.
The baby. Fuck, that’s right. I lift my shoulders hopelessly. “I’m sure it’s okay,” I say, more to reassure myself than anything else.
War gives a slight nod. Apparently if I think it’s okay, he thinks it’s okay. With that, the horseman dismounts. As soon as he do...
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“I’m sorry,” I say.
“For almost killing you with your own sword.”
“I appreciate the apology, wife. All is forgiven.”
I give him a smile. “My husband …”
mouth. “To hear that term on your lips … it is the sweetest music, wife.”
“You have made me mortal in the
worst way, Miriam, and I am forever grateful for it.”
distance. “It is … not so easy to destroy them, knowing that they could’ve been mine,” he says, his eyes dropping to my stomach. My child, he means. He sees his own kid in them. For a moment, I don’t breathe. This might be the first time I’ve seen true empathy from War. “Is that why you spared them?” He glances down at me. “I did it for your soft heart,” he says. “But still, they could’ve been mine.”
War dismounts Deimos and comes up to me, one of his hands moving to my belly. “For your soft heart.”
“Where is my husband?”
War’s dead.
Every man, woman, and child on earth is just as capable of redemption as I am … who am I to cut them down before their true day of judgment?
He was going to stop. All of the violence, all of the killing. He was going to stop. He told me as much last night.
