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Chapter 117

Duaine's POV

I sat there in stunned silence, my mind whirling after my friend had departed. His words still lingered like a malignant ghost in my head, each syllable resounding back. "Don't lose the throne over a girl."

I rubbed the bridge of my nose, I shut my eyes. I wouldn't hold it against him for thinking that. That's all he'd ever wished for, for me to be okay and in control. His counsel was a counsel a friend offers to someone he cares about. And maybe, once, I would have listened. Maybe if this were previous me, before Lessie, I would have listened, maybe even done something about it.

But now it was not like that.

Now, the mere possibility of allowing her to slip out of me, to see her walk and exist without me wasn't possible. I had vowed to guard her. I had promised, in ways wherein I had not spoken so much as a word, to defend her even if all the men and all the women in the world were against me. I could not break that vow. Not now. Not when everything within me
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