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“You’re on fire, heartbreaker.”

She smiles down at me. “I burn for you.”

I shake my head, brushing my lips over hers. “Wearethe flame, baby.”

I wrap my fingers gently but firmly around her throat and kiss her again, deeper this time, stealing her breath just as she takes mine.

Loving her isn’t a choice. It’s instinct. It’s survival.

Two broken souls who scorched the earth just to find each other.

This was never a coincidence.

This was inevitable.

And now, there’s no undoing it.

We are bound.

Burning.

Together, we are the inferno.

THE END.

Epilogue

Song- Emergence, Sleeptoken

With the wedding party in full swing out in the woodlands of Decadence, I sit back on the couch with Finn, watching Charlotte twirl around in her shimmering black dress with Isabella twirling around in her arms.

Both with beaming smiles, dancing the night away without a care in the world.

They don’t see the armed guards surrounding the grounds.

They don’t sense any fear. Because there is none, not anymore.

Charlotte catches a glimpse of me watching and waves, prompting Isabella to spin around and launch herself at me.

“Looks like someone wants their daddy,” Finn says with a grin.

“They both do.”

He spits out his drink.

“Declan, really?”

I wiggle my eyebrows and catch my daughter on my lap.

“Daddy! Daddy! Come dance with us.”

“What if Daddy isn’t good at dancing?”

She pouts, and she’s won me over. I was never denying her anything anyway.

“Mommy will teach you, she’s really good.”

“Oh, is she now?” I ask, standing up, and she grabs my hand, dragging me across the grass to my beautiful wife.

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