Thaddeus didn’t have time to dwell on the shock.

The cliff beneath him was collapsing!

“Ilana! Quick!”

In his panic, Thaddeus blurted out a name he hadn’t spoken in years.

Evadne’s pupils shrunk as her heart pounding wildly.

This call mysteriously injected her with a strange strength that allowed her to scramble to the edge of the cliff at the last moment, throwing herself into Thaddeus‘ arms.

With a tightening grip, he held her as tight as he could.

Boom!

In the last second before the collapse, Thaddeus shielded Evadne with his body and rolled away at an incredible speed, narrowly escaping disaster.

“Uh!” He grunted in pain as his back slammed into a rock. The impact sent a cold sweat down his face, quickly blending with the rain.

“Are you hurt?” Evadne lifted her head from his chest, her eyes filled with worry as she looked at his pale face.

“No.” Thaddeus suppressed the pain, not giving away any signs of discomfort in his deep voice.

Evadne, still shaken, let her soaked body collapse against his heaving chest, taking a deep breath.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Thaddeus looked at her, his wet lashes heavy upon his eyes, his voice hoarse.

“What?” Evadne’s heart fluttered as she avoided his intense gaze.

“Why didn’t you tell me our first encounter was thirteen years ago? Why didn’t you tell me you were the girl I saved here all those years ago?”

words out between his heavy breaths.

turned

when he suddenly called her llana? Was

he remember at that

his realization come thirteen years too

late, far too late. She would rather he never

Evadne.

control his emotions, Thaddeus gripped Evadne’s

marry you in the name of Ilana, do you remember?” Evadne looked at him with dark eyes, her heart

piercing

He, of course, remembered.

She didn’t respond so he gave her a name,

imagined that the girl he saved as a joke,

she had kept it a secret, never letting

like

all, I was always just

Thaddeus‘ breath hitched.

guilty. He

thirteen years, yet

but he coldly

“I’m sorry.”

quivered, his throat choked, “I genuinely didn’t know that you were that girl. If I

you would still divorce me,

relationship between us. And, you don’t need to apologize. Instead, I should be thanking you. After you saved me, you left. I didn’t know

the case, why did you marry me?”

thought that had been tormenting him for so long,

It’s all in the past. What’s the point of dwelling on a marriage that

heart that had just slightly opened.

who used to be at odds with each other momentarily agreed to

phone was already broken and Thaddeus‘ phone had

we’re on the wrong side of Misty Mountain, otherwise, we would

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