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“Excuse me,” he said, breathless. “Have we met before?”

even when we are but bones in the earth my eternal heart will love you still, for even when a star does perish its light burns on for millennia —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

“I love you,” I repeated, because it was all I could say, the only thing that felt large enough, and yet still it would never be enough. “And I have loved you. And I will love you.”

All the years I’ve prayed for an end to this,” I whispered. “And now that ending is finally here, I’d do anything to live just one more life with you.” Our infinite fates were no longer infinite, and nothing could have hurt more.

A shuddering sob. “It might not know it’s with you, but hearts have their ways. Every atrium, every ventricle, every vein and artery will beat for you. Even if my mind has lost you. Because you are in the very fabric of me, all right? You are me, and I am you. And our love is stronger than anything.”

Tears slid down Arden’s beautiful cheeks, bright and shining as the moonlight on the glen. “I want you to know that wherever we are next, my heart will be with you.”

To love was to live, and to live was to die.

My heart beat with the agonising words. Arden was my family. A homeland I would defend with every fibre of my being. I’d always believed him to be the villain, but he wasn’t. I was. And he loved me still.

The fifth item on my dream list: to grow old with the love of my life. A wedding, a home, a child of our own, all the quiet rituals and shared stories of ordinary, long-lasting love. I laid my arm over his stomach, over the soft fabric of his fleece-lined coat, and as he squeezed me tight, I wished I could press myself into his very being.