Immortality: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology #2)

by Dana Schwartz

As Hazel looked closer, she realized it was a ring made from a needle, its eye on one side and its sharpened point on the other. “I got a surgeon’s needle from the ship. Bent it into the right shape myself. It’s silly I know, but I thought maybe you might like it.” He slid it onto Hazel’s finger. “I know I can’t promise you much, Hazel, but I can promise you’ll have me, for as long as you want me. I will be by your side for your entire life. I will give you everything I am. If you find a … a cure, or if you don’t—there is no world in which I want to be apart from you ever again.”

“Let me make this promise to you, Hazel Sinnett,” he said, kissing her neck. “Let me tell the world that I am yours and you are mine. Until death do us part.”