Page 119 of Knight's End

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I turned to my knights with a smile, happy to be home.

But my eyes caught the messenger’s gaze. And something in their liquid grey depths called to me.

I cried out as memories poured back into my head, like they’d been bottled up and suspended just outside my body.

A cat and a bobcat streaking through the woods, a heated kiss under the portcullis, teasing thoughts, hands, lips. Wishes and nightmares.

“Quinn!”

I ran toward him, tears streaking down my cheeks as I yanked him hard into a hug.

And as his arms wrapped around my waist, my silent knight spoke the first words I’d ever heard from him. “I love you, Dove.”

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