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at each other and know we were mates. Maeve
told me she could make it so. If I gave her the
keys, she’d make it all possible.” She wiped at
her cheek, at the tear that escaped down it.
“She spun me realities where you were dead,
where you’d been killed by Erawan and only
in handing over the keys to her would I be
able to avenge you. But those realities made
me ... I stopped being useful to her when she
told me you were gone. She couldn’t get me to
talk, to think. Yet in the ones where you and I
met, where things were as they should have
been ... that was when I came the closest.”
His swallow was audible. “What stopped
you?”
She wiped at her face again. “The male I
fell in love with was you. It was you, who
knew pain as I did, and who walked with me
through it, back to the light. Maeve didn’t
understand that. That even if she could create