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When he finished, Aelin was quiet for long
minutes.
She stared out into the blackness, the
rippling of her treading water the only sound.
Her body had nearly lost that freshly forged
glow.
Then she pivoted back toward him. “Maeve
said you and the others were in the North.
That you’d been spotted by her spies there.
Did you plant that deception for her, too?”
He shook his head. “Lysandra has been
thorough, it seems.”
Aelin’s throat bobbed. “I believed her.”
It sounded like a confession, somehow.
So Rowan found himself saying, “I told
you once that even if death separated us, I
would rip apart every world until I found
you.” He gave her a slash of a smile. “Did you
really believe this would stop me?”
She pursed her mouth, and at last, those