So, she does care for me after all! Leonidas thought, his heart soaring at the realization. He held her close against his side, savoring the feeling of her head leaning against his shoulder.
He noticed that her face still had the remnants of tears, so he reached his thumb up to wipe them away.
I made her cry, he thought bitterly. I was such an i***t to treat her so coldly after sharing such intimacy with her.
He cursed himself for wasting precious time being mad at her. The clock was ticking on the time they had left together until she disappeared behind the gates of the Elysian Fields for eternity.
I won’t make that mistake again, he thought, running his knuckles comfortingly across the bare skin of her arm.
As much as he wished he could follow her into the Elysian Fields, he kn
