“R-really?” My voice was small. No one had ever wanted me that much. Not even my own parents. “Even… even after all this time?” “I would have waited forever,” he told me. My eyes filled with tears again. I didn’t voice it, but… I struggled to understand why. Why he loved me so much. Why he had waited so long for me. I wasn’t anyone special. I was just the idiot who’d fallen through that void and into his palace. I wasn’t very smart, and I didn’t think I was very handsome. But… Lor did. Lor told me I was smart. And he said I was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. He treated every moment
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