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My love for the two of you exists inside your love for each other—when you love each other, you are loving me.

Don’t make it happen 🥲

Because for the two of them I felt an almost God-like love: just that they were alive, just that they existed, was enough to thrill me with measureless joy. That on top of that, they were also happy and in love with each other gave me peace, and because I loved them like I loved nothing and no one else, their happiness was a greater prize than my own.

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“I wish so many things, Ash, but sometimes I wish nothing more than that we’d never met so I wouldn’t have to say no to you.”
“Am I so awful?” I asked in a broken voice. “Am I so much worse than anybody else that you can’t marry me?”

Oh Embry 🥹

“I love you, little prince,” is all he says.
After I’ve spent the last year doing everything I can to undermine his power, relentlessly stating and restating every single way I think he’s a bad leader, publicly forswearing our every bond and oath, trumpeting about his weaknesses, after all of that—all he wants to say to me is I love you?

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I put my hand over hers, press both into her belly.
“Whose pain is it?” I ask quietly.
She lets out a long breath, her body relaxing ever so slightly. “Yours, Mr. President.”
“Good girl,” I say. “I’ll be back, and then you will give me your pain as you’re supposed to.“

Ah shit, here we go again