James POV
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I was in the dungeons, sitting on the mattress, and watched Avery sleep.
I stroked her hair gently and she started turning and groaning before flickering her eyes open.
”Hey there beautiful.” I said as I looked down on my beautiful mate.
’Oh how I wished I could take your place for you.’ I thought to myself as I looked into her big brown eyes.
”Hey there handsome.” She replied. It’s nice to see the change in reaction from the last time I uttered those words, when we were in the hotel room the morning after she had been drugged, to her I was a stranger but to me, she was home. Even if I refused to believe it or acknowledge it, she is my home and has been ever since I first laid eyes on her.
Avery sat up and, her legs were behind me and one of
