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spent the past century with a complete bastard. You deserve something more than just surviving. I hope you find it.”
    Ren didn’t know what to say to that. So as Michael walked away, he said nothing.
    â€œSo what are you going to do now?” Elle asked as Michael disappeared inside the house.
    Ren crooked a grin at her and wished she couldn’t read him so easily. “Oh, come now, princess. Don’t look so glum. You heard our fearless leader. I’ve a trainee to attend to—unless I can chase her off or talk Will out of this.”
    â€œThat’s not going to happen,” Elle said, shaking her head.
    â€œNo.” Ren sighed and smoothed a hand back over his naked scalp. “I suspect you’re right.”
    â€œI’m going to worry about you.” Her breathing hitched. “Hell, I’ve always worried about you, but we spent so much time together, I was able to keep an eye on you. That’s not going to happen from here on out, I don’t think.”
    Ren sighed and jogged down the stairs, suddenly impatient to be gone. “Elle, I’m a big boy. I don’t need a nanny…or even a fairy-tale princess watching my mangy hide.”
    â€œHow about a friend? One who still loves you, even if it’s not quite the way you’d hoped?”
    He grimaced. “Elle…”
    â€œDamn it.” She sighed, then glanced back over her shoulder to where her future husband, her prince, her life waited. “Fuck, Ren. I’m sorry.”
    He sighed, then turned back to her and mounted the stairs. Stopping a step below her so that they stood eye to eye, he caught her hand. “Sorry for what? For being you? Elle, don’t be. No, things aren’t working out for me the way I’d hoped. But they are working out the way they need to…for you, for him. And I’m not angry over that. I don’t begrudge you your happiness. You deserve it.”
    He lifted a brow and glanced around her. “Although I’m small enough to admit, sometimes I might begrudge him.”
    â€œNo, you don’t.” She forced a smile, though tears gleamed in her eyes. “Empath, remember?”
    She licked her lips and reached up. “Sometimes I wished I was like one of those women in some of those wicked books you so love to tease me over—that I could love two guys. But that’s not me.”
    â€œIf it was you, I wouldn’t have fallen for you the way I did. I couldn’t share you, neither could he. Not forever. We’d kill each other, and you know it.” Ren leaned in and bussed her mouth softly. “Go on inside now, princess. Go to your man. And stop worrying so over me. I’ll be okay.”
    â€œI don’t want you okay. I want you happy .” She lingered, lifted a hand to rest over his heart. “You know, Michael said something just now…you deserve something more than just surviving. He’s right. And you’ve always been looking for something. I’ve seen it, sensed it. For something. Maybe now you can go on, you can move on…and find it.”
    â€œMaybe.” He curled his hand around her wrist and with an elegant, aristocratic grace even her prince might have admired, he bowed over her hand with a flourish and kissed it. “Perhaps, my princess. Perhaps. You know, I thought for the longest time that it was you. I thought it was you…and I was wrong. So now, I start looking again.”
    He let go of her hand and then backed away, giving her a smile. “I’ll see you, princess.”
    â€œYou better.”

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