“I love you, Serena Bello,” Szaro said forcefully. “I want to spend the rest of my life with you, with a swarm of offspring filling our dwelling. I want to carve every centimeter of our home’s entrance with the decades of memories we will forge together. I want to fill the walls of our younglings’ rest rooms with their history as they grow and thrive. I want to travel every corner of Trangor with you by my side, show you the beauty of this world and rediscover it through your eyes. And I want us to have all of this because you choose me, because you choose us and that future. Not because you
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