let light in (darklina)
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Last published Tue, Dec 21, 2021
"You obviously told your husband what we shared?"
Mal tensed at her side and she laid a hand on his knee to calm him.
"I tell him everything."
"Did you tell him how you pulled me in first? How you kissed me back? How you screamed my name?"
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Alina receives a letter explaining that the Darkling has returned. Her husband, Mal, goes with her to meet up with him again. Things are back where they started. She feels drawn to him, there is this pull there and she can't figure out what it is. There is light in him and she can't help but want to coax it out. If only he could stop this madness and greed. Could he be saved?
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