If it had not been for their limited time on limited evenings together, Edric would have been fully content to fall asleep snuggled into her arms. Her reassurances did little do sway his concerns, but that was to be expected; those concerns had followed him for nearly his entire life and was little that could undo them in such a short time.

"It's times like these where I question my existence," he murmured, the smell of her perfume lulling him for the moment. "I always considered myself an active man with a thirst for adventure, but I'm not unsure I'd be perfectly happy to live an idle life from the comfort of my—our—bed."

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