Louisa's POV Lucas' cold voice floated in the air. I saw thousands of snowflakes swirling in the cold north wind in his eyes. At that very moment, I realized that he wasn't the one that I'd been waiting for all these years. "Lucas," I said in a low, quiet voice, "Do you want me to accept your rejection?" "No," he said decisively. "I want you to stay with me and love me unconditionally." I looked at him. Slow as the winter snow, the tears drifted from my eyes. I took off the Ring from my neck and put it aside, so he could feel what kind of pain I was going through. "Even though it hurts me like this?" I wept silently, feeling a thousand knives stabbing into my chest. Lucas sighed, picked up the Ring, and put it back on my neck. He took a long pause and said, "I've changed my mind. I won't sell the warlock to his deadbeat uncle, so he won't be taken to the slave market. Since I'm done with him, he'll be reassigned a post as your personal guard, and I won't lay a h
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