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Green eyes, brimming with tears and suppressed sobs, looked past Silas to the woman standing behind him—the supposed healer.

But under the moonlight, at last, Sigrid saw her true face.

She knew the woman had come to send her back, and she refused to leave. Yet, no matter how much she resisted, the past wouldn’t change the way she wished it would.

"I love you, I love you so much…" she whispered between sobs, lifting her trembling lips to his and kissing him desperately, clinging to him,