He was marooned on an uninhabited planet, traveling on foot to a ship that may or may not actually function well enough to get him off that planet. And yet, when Rakhnar woke that night, it was with total contentment. The most perfect creature in the entirety of the cosmos lay peacefully in his arms. She’d taken pleasure in touching him, no matter how chaste those touches, and she’d enjoyed his touches in return—trusted him with something that had only brought her pain in the past. His heart was broken, and simultaneously, as full as it had ever been. It will not last, he reminded himself. The
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