Chapter 6: Love

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If only I had known that kiss would ignite a firestorm of havoc, bloodshed, and revolution, I would have spared myself and walked away. But in that moment, I was blinded by love. I couldn't see or think of anything else. I was deeply in love with a Votan, and he loved me just the same.

We kissed again and again, our passion growing with each passing night spent in his quarters. Dorian was everything I once despised, but now, he was my everything. Our love was beautiful, perfect, and forbidden.

Among the many laws we defied, the most critical was the prohibition on alien-human relationships. General Kron's death sentence was just the beginning of our worries. Dorian Gale, the Votan tasked with my murder, was now illegally in love with me, his intended victim.

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