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Thillak kissed his mate’s hand and beamed at us once more. “I was inspired by how Ohara fell for you. I took a long good look at my life and realized I had all the things money could buy… and none of the things money couldn’t buy. As for the details… well, I guess I’ll tell you all about that on the way to the new home you’re going to take us to.”
I looked at Lily, thinking she might know what he was talking about as she seemed to have a much better grip on what was going on between Thillak and this mate of his than I did. She shrugged her shoulders in response.
“We’ve escaped Ikmal,” Thillak said. “Drop us off on any planet we pass on the way to wherever it is you’re going. I have friends everywhere. We’ll be all right. Do you think you could do that for an old friend?”
For letting me have Lily when I beat Druin? For giving me a job on the outside when I needed it? For leaving my cell door unlocked so I could beat Druin a third time? It wasn’t much of an ask.
“Of course,” I said. “Come sit in the cockpit. Then you can tell us all about your story.”
He did, with interjections from his mate on the finer points. They were a cute couple and not the match I would have made if I was responsible for choosing his mate for him. But I supposed that was what made me a Nor and not Fate herself.
Their story was filled with love and passion and excitement and adventure, almost as thrilling as our own.
Almost.
And as we sailed into the infinity darkness of the cosmos with Ikmal’s red desert surface drifting further and further behind us, I realized just how lucky we were. I reached over and took Lily by the hand and squeezed.
She looked over at me and I smiled back at her. It had been a long wait but one I would do all over again a thousand times if it meant I could be with her here and now, and looked forward to the exciting promise of the future we had together.
My fated mate.
My Lily.
