Lor (Monstrous, #7)

by Lily Mayne

“I haven’t really achieved much, but making the decision to come back here, to meet you properly, is the thing I’m most proud of in my life,” he told me quietly. “I love you, Lor. I don’t regret any of it. And that… that helps. It helps me accept what”—his breath shuddered out of him—“what’s going to happen. It was all worth it. I love you.”

However, everyone knew that I had someone. Because a year after Jugs had gone into his deep sleep, I asked Lilimar to pierce my lip.

“I have worn that same outfit for the last five years. There’s no need for me to have a new one every year, is there? And anyway, it… it reminds me of you.”

“Maybe we can find peace between the two worlds. And then… and then when you wake up, you won’t have to be a secret.”