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Pain. Audrey couldn’t seem to focus on anything else. Images flickered through her mind, fragments of memories, and she struggled to catch the pieces. A ship sailing to France, a quiet inn, soldiers, an explosion, a moonlit cliff, a drawn knife, a shot in the dark…and then pain. So much pain.
And then something else. Something greater.
“Please, my love, come back to me.”
That voice.
It was as though she was trapped in a place between breaths, a world of memories and sensations.
Flashing green eyes, soft curved lips, a soft chuckle intended only for her.
Air filled her lungs in a gasp.
The glimmer of light upon water, the splash of fish in the pond, the rocking of a boat. Another deep kiss to satisfy centuries of longing.
A slow breath escaped her lips.
“I love you.”
Those wor
