Lyonya, I knew we were both thinking. And then Kostia was looking at me through the dark, thinking I love you. He didn’t need to say it for me to hear it. I took a deep, unsteady breath, looking down at the tiled ledge where my hand had found his and linked finger to finger. “You’re my partner,” I said unsteadily. “You’re my shadow. My other half. I trust you like no one else in this world. No one can do what we’ve done and not be closer than two humans can ever be, in this world or the next.” My parents, my child, my friends, either of the men I’d called husband—none of them knew me like
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