She raised a delicate hand to press around the cut on his cheek. As her soft, cool fingers touched it, his heart stopped. Actually stopped. For a millisecond he was gasping, wordless as he registered that perhaps he was dying. Then it started again, a jolt like lightning streaking through him. He jerked, his body catching up with him as Elara stilled. “I’m not going to hurt you,” she said. It struck such a deep chord within him that even the voice of truth inside him, which was always quiet when she was around and never told him a damn thing about her, spoke. ‘She is who you’ve been looking
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