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Charlotte inhaled Damon’s earthy scent. She’d almost told him she loved him, but she held back. Looking over his shoulder, she scanned the trail.
“Do you think he’ll be okay?” she asked. For all of Wyatt’s faults, she didn’t like the idea of leaving him now.
“He’ll be fine. I’ve never doubted his strength for this task. He won’t fail.”
“Are you sure?”
“I wouldn’t leave him if I wasn’t. His anger will carry him through until the moon. After that… well, I think he’ll start looking inward. That’s the thing about solitude. It forces us to learn more about ourselves than is initially comfortable.”
“And if he shows up back home and still wants to fight?”
He pulled back just enough to look her in the eyes. “It wouldn’t be pretty. But I don’t see it coming to that. A lot of crazy emotion
