Chapter 503:

“I feel splendid.” And he did. Seeing her alive and well breathed new strength into him.

Her steps were tentative as she closed the distance between them, her delicate fingers reaching out to touch his arm. “May I?”

“You never need to ask, Riel,” he drawled. “Touch me whenever, however you wish.”

Her cheeks colored again, his subtle double meaning not lost on her.

Maintaining silence, she removed his cloak with careful hands, folding it neatly and setting it aside before turning her attention to his arm.

Eyes on the dark trails of blackened blood. “How is it?”

“It doesn’t hurt as much anymore,” he said, his voice soothing. “My soul is healing, and with it, the symptoms are fading.”

skin. “Yes, they’re not as dark or as numerous as they

nothing left to give you,” she had told him that day in the woods. Yet,

whispered, completely focused. “The

fretting

tucked the silky strands of hair that had fallen across her face behind her ears. First one side, then the

Her hand stilled.

looked up, her luminous eyes meeting

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he continued, his voice heavy with meaning. “Thank you for being here. You saved my

lightly on his chest. “But why

Emeriel,” he said with a faint smile. “So many, in fact, that if you became a bard and wrote them all down, you’d need an entire library

and he saw her throat tighten as she swallowed against the emotion welling up inside her. “But you shouldn’t

If you walked out there and caught ten poisoned

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