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He pulled back and looked at her then, like he saw more of her—as if some puzzle piece he’d been struggling to place in his head had finally found a way to fit.

As she looked down at him, she wondered if anyone had ever been so profoundly compassionate. That was the crux of who he was, and why he was often unfamiliar to her.

No one had ever loved her in the light.

Nostalgia made a home in the lines of her face, but it didn’t appear to be a painful one. Rather, it radiated a sense of calm. Peace. Like perhaps Melisina had lost something more significant than could ever be named, but grief could not snuff out the love anymore.

Dominik had looked upon the world and decided it was his, and Vassa knew nothing belonged to her at all.

They had each mastered what they first saw in themselves. And when she gazed upon them, all she found was how they could choose who they wanted to be.
She wanted that. To choose.