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And he understood that he would love her forever, would cherish her forever. Not because she was the only one he could touch.
Because she was the only one who touched him. Amber was the only one who’d reached the cold heart he kept inside. She’d taught him to love. She’d shown the Reaper that there was so much more to life than just death.
His lips pressed to hers.
And he was finally at peace.

“I think you’ve got the wrong girl,” Luke said, truly considering things now. “You don’t need someone so…good. Perhaps, brother, what you really need is a walk on the darker side.”
Leo glanced back at him. “That side would lead me straight to hell.”
“Oh, yes, no doubt.” Luke smiled. “But wouldn’t it be a fun ride?”

It hadn’t always been that way. Once, they’d been so close…until the world had said they must be enemies.
Until Luke had been told he was bad.
And Leo was good.
Only lately, Leo had begun to show more than a few bad qualities of his own.

And that was when he caught it…the briefest of flashes, but it was there. Envy. In Leo’s eyes. The great and powerful Lord of the Light envied him.
Because in the end, Leo is alone.

“You’re the one mated to him.”
Mina laughed again—this time, the sound was more nervous than musical. “I’m the one in love with him.”
So that story was true. “Does he love you?”
“He does,” Luke answered.

Mina!

Cass glared at him—and Luke. As if he were the only one with a fucked-up family—the terror twins could hardly judge him.

“- I was dealing with fucking twenty other world-ending problems. The apocalypse is always a step away.”
“Amen,” Leo mumbled.

“There’s more to life than power. You both need to learn that lesson. Maybe then you can avoid killing each other.”

She was the woman the Reaper loved. And Death wasn’t going to let her go.