“What do you expect me to do, Roxy?” I demanded, my temper rising despite myself. “Well you defied the stars for me once already. So what’s once more?” she asked. “This fate was the price of that defiance,” I said, my soul aching at the words I was having to speak, but I’d thought about this. I’d thought of nothing but this for months on end and I couldn’t see any way to change it. “I was gifted a year to love you and that’s what I’ve done.” “If you love me so much then why are you so set on leaving me? Destroying me?” she asked icily. “I‘m not,” I protested. “So swear it, Darius.”
