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"Not necessarily," she answered. "But it makes it easier for me to admit that I love you. And I'm happy I get to keep you."

Her words soothed something that had ached in him for a very long time and Zoric wasn't certain how to respond. Except, he did.

"I love you, too," he told her. "And I'm planning to keep you forever."

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Chapter 5

Angela knew Zoric had entered the cell block before the door opened - his presence rippled through her consciousness like sunlight breaking through clouds. The institutional fluorescents should have made his scales look harsh and artificial, but instead they caught hints of emerald and gold she hadn't noticed before.

She should have been terrified - a stranger who could read her thoughts, an alien who had somehow saved her life twice. Instead, his presence felt like coming home after a long deployment, familiar even though she'd never experienced anything like it before.

He set something down outside her cell and settled onto it. She didn't think it was a chair but she was too tired to look.

"Are you awake Private McBride?"

"It's not fair that you've saved me twice, now, and I still don't know your name," she told him.

She was laying on the cot in her cell, still wearing her hospital gown. A slight breeze chilled the skin on her arms and her feet were cold.

Angela could fix all of these things with a simple request but she was too tired.

"Twice?" her visitor asked.

She smiled to herself. "And that's what you focus on. You're definitely a man, even if you have scales."

"My mother was human," he said.

"What was your father?"

"My name is Zoric," he said. "And I am pleased to make your acquaintance."

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