“I didn’t want that to be the last thing I said to you.” Her face crumpled again, but she pulled it back. “I never told you that I love you. And I do.” Light exploded in my chest, hearing those words. I knew—of course we knew. We could feel it even when she’d sent us away. But hearing it was like having the aurora borealis poured directly into my soul. Glorious, awe-inspiring, and like nothing else in the whole fucking universe. I kissed the back of her hand because it was the closest skin that I could reach. Alex was on his feet and with us in a flash, leaning down to kiss her bare shoulder.
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