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"I didn't throw you!" he defended himself "You fell off!"

"No way! You totally pushedback down into the nook of his aret hurt, you are i at me

"Do you really think that? Do you really think I'm immortal?" I asked, and the tone of the conversation was suddenly sober

"I do think that," Jericho answered, his toneabout Amory and eventually the world outlived hi as his, it's hard not to say that he was anything but"

"You're right," I agreed, rerandfather before he died Death offered peace for hi home I had watched him slip away into the other side of eternity with a smile on his face and eyes that looked towards heaven and I envied him

"Why do you ask?" he whispered, his voice hoarse and thoughtful

"I don't know, it's just that I haven't known about ic for even an entire year yet, but these last few hting battles like this forever I can't iine Lucan as my enemy for the rest of time And if I'm im's goal is to oing to be the three of us fighting for all of eternity, I think I will just give Kiran ic and call it quits! Doesn't that sound awful?" I whined, truly afraid of the words I was speaking

"It won't just be the three of you, though, we are going to get Avalon back You uaranteed, and then your parents They will at least live for a very, very long time And then your husband, whoever you choose for that role; I ic so I mean, he will also be immortal," Jericho finished his point slowly, as if he hadn't ht! My husband I forgot about him! I wonder what he will be like?" I tried to reet under Jericho's skin, but I couldn't keep a straight face

"He's going to have to be a patient man," Jericho teased, "a very patient man"

"Hey now! That's not very nice!" I acted offended, but, secretly, I agreed with hied back to serious, and I could sense the direction he was going before he said anything else Butterflies attacked my stomach and I could feel my cheeks blush with anticipation "I'm a patient man," he whispered and I breathed in deeply with confirically, I knew that he did, but es He said the words before, but I wasn't ready to hear them And now thatour future and not having a single thought that didn't include hiic had moved on, noould hear those words and say them back I would believe them and hope that he believedmy face to his "You were patient all this time I had to find myself first; I had to remember who I was and become the person I was meant to be You have been there for me patiently while I searched for you, even when I didn't knoas looking for you, you were there"

"And, did you find ainst mine

"Mm every etherness

"I love you, Eden, I always have," he whispered sweetly and I almost cried at his sincerity

"I love you, too," I answered honestly, and with all that was left ofour coainst each other, refusing to leave one another and my lips mimicked the sentiment I loved Jericho in the o people are supposed to love each other, with trust, co into each other and falling asleep on the couch We had eternity before us, there was no need to hurry, no need to rush things Part oftime, and that he was always my intended destiny once life had turned upside down And the other part of ht, with our words and purpose for each other ere finally together and I had been waiting forever to be with hi hi hiet closer, finding it hard to get coued with , that I had been hurt before and so I wasn't willing to trust happiness that felt too good to be true But these moments on the couch, with oodbye than the start of so, and fell asleep to his peaceful,I proh Roht thereafter, could be spent like this with Jericho I just needed to rescue Avalon first

Chapter Thirty-Seven

"Please, Lilly, I'll never forgive ed and almost cried out to my friend

"Eden, of course I will stay with her! Of course I will," she said quickly, soothingas you're sure you would rather have o?" I could tell that Lilly was disappointed she wouldn't get to go on the ent need to protect Aunt Syl and Lilly I started thinking about the mission and how Lilly was already in prison twice and I decided I couldn't let Lilly risk her life again or leave Aunt Syl alone again, for even a moment So, because they loved each other sohappened to either of them, I turned them to each other and forced them to promise me they would take care of the other one

"Thank you!" I threw htly to !"