For the first time since they'd arrived a shadow crossed Gard's face. "I realised that though Ana had returned, she was but an echo of a time long past, and I was holding onto memories that would never come again. Annie isn't Ana, they just share a body and mind. She doesn't want to live up here in the ruins of a Palace long buried, and why should she? Annie's life is with Caleb and the pack. It was wrong of me to presume that she would ever want to stay here."
"I'm sure one day Annie would love to come here, Gard. She would come for Anakatrine so the vampire Queen might one day relive her life here with you."
He shook his head, his smile turning resigned. "No, that life has passed now. I am content with the life that I now live. How could I not be? I have the best of both worlds."
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