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Chapter 42

Relax, just let yourself enjoy it for a few minutes.” He wraps his arms around me, determined to keep me warm and quiet.

So, I give him that, letting the tension in my neck and shoulders melt away as I lean into him, slipping an arm around his waist.

He’s staring up into the night sky. Extending his hand, he points at one particularly bright star. “You see that? The glittering one, just there.”

“Yeah, neat, it shines bright like a diamond, if I may quote Rihanna.”

“That’s our star,” he says, his voice filled with awe.

“Our star?” I glance at him. “Wait…you didn’t do one of those things where you get to name a star or something?”

He laughs. “No, silly. I just meant, it feels like it’s shining for us. In fact, they all do.”

Just then the stars surrounding the larger one begin to swirl in the night sky as they’re all marshalled forward.

“What the?” I squeeze my eyes shut trying to banish the hallucination.

“Chleo, you’re missing it,” Nathan says, drawing my hands away.

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