Warriors of Poseidon 02 - Atlantis Awakening

strong, proud face she'd come to love so well. "I know that. I'd expect no less."
     
    "I love you more than I have ever loved a living being, but I cannot ask you to wed with this task hanging over my head, Erin. It would be unfair." He rasped out the words, as if they'd been wrenched from the deepest corners of his soul. As if everything in him fought against saying them.
     
    Just like everything in her fought against hearing them.
     
    Atlantis Awakening – Warriors of Poseidon 02
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    She considered and rejected responses for several minutes, while he stood next to her, his hands clenched at his sides. Finally she found the perfect answer and flashed him her most brilliant smile.
     
    "So you're unfair. Add it to the list. You're not getting out of marrying me that easily."
     
    His face lit up with savage joy. "That's getting to be a very long list, my beloved gem singer witch. It's going to take us a lifetime to work our way through it."
     
    "I love you, and Atlantis is beginning to feel like home. So a lifetime sounds just about right," she mused, and then his lips stopped hers from saying anything else for a very long time. When he finally lifted his head, she smiled and realized she was right. She'd finally come home. The future might hold darkness, but Ven would be her light.
     
    Atlantis had awakened, and she was reborn.
     
    THE END