“Don’t trust me?” I found a smile on my lips, but it was still wavering with the threat of tears. “I trust you.” His voice was quieter than I’d ever heard it. “Are you going to tell me why?” I could see that he wanted to know. That he was struggling to understand. He’d been surprised when Clove showed up in Bastian with my message and he wanted to know why I’d do it. Why I’d risk anything for him, after everything he’d done. I looked up, and the shape of him bent in the light. I gave him the real answer. The whole, naked truth of it. “Because I don’t want to lose you.” There was no more to it,
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