CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Will didn’t catch me until I was halfway down the garden path where he grabbed my arm. He pulled me around and I could see the worry in his eyes. “You need to stay here,” he insisted.
I set my hand atop his and shook my head. “This isn’t negotiable. Besides, if you kick the bucket what does it matter to me? I’ll be left alone in a world I hardly know.”
“Raines would always look after you,” he reminded me.
I glared up at him as tears pooled in my eyes. “But I wouldn’t want Raines, I want you. You told me yourself that if a dragon lord loses his bride he often takes his own life.” I choked on my words but forced them out. “I couldn’t see any other way out for myself, either. Even if I had a hundred years ahead of me they’d be pointless without you.”
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