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He wrapped a hand around my shoulders and kissed me.
I could taste the salt of my own tears.
I wasn’t embarrassed and let them come.
The leader might have let us go but he hadn’t set us free.
With no food and lacking the medicines Egara needed, it was as good as a death sentence.
“If you’re telling the truth and you really are in love, perhaps you’ll find a way to escape the planet after all.”
Had the leader meant in death?
It was a freedom of sorts but not the one I had hoped for.
I pulled back and smiled at Egara.
A little color had returned to his cheeks but he was still badly injured.
He ran a hand over my cheeks as I ran mine through his hair.
“I love you,” I said.
“I love you too. My fated mate.”
It was a love unlike any I had ever known, the kind most took a lifetime to develop.
And I knew with certainty this would not be the end.
At some point in the future, or maybe the past, our paths would cross again.
Perhaps then, in that time, we would live the life we deserved.
The sand kicked up and stung my face.
I pulled back from his lips as the wind grew stronger.
A whirring like the shuttlecraft engines grew louder and more voluminous.
I squinted and cupped my hands around my eyes to protect myself from the worst of the sand and made out a large ship descending down on us.
Oh, great, I thought. What now?
Egara leaned forward and forced himself onto his feet.
He couldn’t remain standing without my help.
He raised a hand to the ship and waved, a grin spreading across his features.
“About time,” he said.
“Is that…?”
“Yes. The Wanderer. My ship.”
My heart-rate thumped my chest and soared higher and further than even his ship was capable of.
I wrapped my arms around Egara and prayed life would be a little easier for the both of us.
