Amanda

“Lorcan slid his other arm around Elide, bringing his mouth close to her ear as he said, “You have to let me go.”
Elide didn’t shift her focus from the keep ahead. “No.”
“You have to. You have to, Elide. I’m too heavy—and without my weight, you might make it to the keep in time.”
“No.” The salt of her tears filled his nose.
“I love you,” he whispered in Elide’s ear. “I have loved you from the moment you picked up that axe to slay the ilken. And I will be with you…” His voice broke, but he made himself say the words, the truth in his heart. “I will be with you always.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash