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kissing had finished that I pulled back to look at him better and told him my thoughts,
    “I can’t believe you did that.”
    “I do seem to recall us having sex before Keira, quite a few times in fact,” he teased.
    “Yes but no offence Draven, it usually comes after your business is concluded, not before.” I knew when his eyes gave me that soft tender look that he understood what I was trying to say.
    “I nearly lost you,” he said framing my face with both hands and suddenly I wanted to cry. I couldn’t help it. Just hearing the pain that he clearly tried to bury under the mountains of hurt, hurt built that simply loving each other had caused, well that was never going to be an easy thing to take.
    “I know but…” I started to say but when he started shaking his head I stopped.
    “There is no but to be found in this, Keira. You were lost to me and I was facing a lifetime living with the woman I loved… one that unknowingly became my enemy.” I frowned down at him before shifting to move off him and his wings uncurled and let me. I sat back on my knees, pulling the quilt up to cover me.
    “That stung.” I told him quickly hating where this conversation was taking us to.
    “It wasn’t meant to.” He told me honestly.
    “You have to understand what I faced. You weren’t just lost to me because you were simply taken and I could fight to get you back. I was fighting someone I loved Keira, I was fighting you.” He said pushing up with his wings as he took my hands in his. Like this with his bare torso and wings looking lighter in the daylight he looked like a fallen Angel pleading for forgiveness for his sins.
    “I understand.”
    “No, you couldn’t possibly. And I don’t blame you for it, if anything I commend you for even trying.”
    “Draven.”
    “When you first walked back into my club I thought I was dreaming, by the Gods how I had dreamt of that very sight! But then to find it was real was like a gift from the Heavens.” I bit my lip as I listened to what I knew Draven now needed. He had no doubt kept in his feelings in for so long, that to finally be given the opportunity to release all those building emotions was the closure he needed to move on. Yes, I had been me for the last week and I knew now that Draven had no doubt given me the time I needed to deal with things. Well now it was his time and I was going to give it to him.
    “I knew you were coming back to me as I had been told this. But know that waiting for it was like waiting to be reconnected back with the other half of your soul, one waiting to meet you in your own Afterlife.” He said this as if it was still happening and I squeezed his hands, trying to reassure him that I was still here. 
    “I didn’t want to believe what I had been told and until you shouted your other name out to me in this very room, I didn’t believe it.” As he reminded me of a time that was not my own, the memory belonging to her came flooding back to me. It was when I, as Katie, had her first real encounter with Draven and I almost felt sorry for me. I remembered the first time I had done it all that time ago and how nervous I had been back then. How intimidating I found him, I almost laughed out loud. But this got me thinking. It was almost as if our two histories were destined to play out as they first did. I too had faced an impossible reality and was forced to believe I was someone else to be with the man of my dreams…
    The Chosen One.
    This title I had struggled with from the very beginning and being faced with a man like Draven telling you who you were didn’t make it easier but harder…much harder. So to wake up and be told you were his wife, just as I had been told I was his Chosen One, was as much incredible as it was implausible.
    “It was so hard as I could see you. I could hear you. I could feel you in my arms. I could still connect our bodies together as one but…” He swallowed hard and looked down at our joined hands before