It would be like that eventually, he feared, and the guilt flooded him at not sending her home to Faebarrow when he’d had the chance. But selfishness had won out, just as it had the night before. He used her for companionship, just as he’d used her to transport the talisman, the pendant, his own morality, and what kind of evil creature kept someone they cared so deeply about in so much danger when safety was such an easy option? Someone who had buried herself inside him deserved more. Someone who had given him such goodness in return for less than nothing, someone who made him think, even if
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