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sunbeam in the rising dawn, and yet he had
felt her smile at him.
Tonight, with only the cold fire of the stars
for company, he begged her once more.
A curl of wind sent his prayer drifting to
those stars, to the waxing moon silvering the
camp, the river, the mountains.
He had killed his way across the world; he
had gone to war and back more times than he
cared to remember. And despite it all, despite
the rage and despair and ice he’d wrapped
around his heart, he’d still found Aelin. Every
horizon he’d gazed toward, unable and
unwilling to rest during those centuries, every
mountain and ocean he’d seen and wondered
what lay beyond ... It had been her. It had
been Aelin, the silent call of the mating bond
driving him, even when he could not feel it.
They’d walked this dark path together back
to the light. He would not let the road end