I dropped to my knees beside the body of the woman who had become so important to me. She had been the closest thing to a parent I had ever really known, and I hadn’t ever told her that. I hadn’t told her how much I’d needed the kind of love she offered me so simply, or how much she had come to mean to me in the time we’d spent together. She had become something to me which I’d only ever dared to dream of in the most secret corners of my heart. Catalina Acrux had been my family and now she lay dead alongside the man she’d finally found love with upon a battlefield of slain Fae who I should
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