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“Not a day went by in that cell where I didn’t think of you,” he admits softly to her, stroking her back. “Remembering our time together at the Faithless was the only thing that kept me from breaking.”

“I don’t believe in much in this world, but I know this to be true: I love you, Dru. I’ll love you until my very last heartbeat on this earth, and if, somehow, there’s a place for us beyond that, I’ll love you then. I’ll never stop.”

“When we were apart for all those years, I thought about you every day. Every single day,” he confesses. “Seeing you again in that tabernae in Nusquam, it was as if no time had passed, even though so much had changed. You had changed. But the more time I spent with you in Anziano, the harder I fell for you.”

“ “I can’t handle Dru seeing me like this—this defeated man. We’ve only just found each other again, and knowing all this time that we could’ve been together haunts me.” He swallows hard. “From the moment I met her, I loved her in some form, wanted her more than I’ve ever wanted anyone or anything. Yet, in all that time, I could never have her; there was always something keeping us apart.”