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"Thank you for saving my life, Anarieveta." Declan rasped at her hair.

"Thank you f-for staying alive." Vetta cried, "You have no idea h-how... how you have helped m-me now."

He continued, "All these years, I get flashes of our time in that cage...and my last moments. I felt so much hatred towards you," he admitted, "my memories were all jumbled up. I remember a betrayal from a woman that has taken punishments for the King. I remember the woman stabbing me."

Declan pulled back then and looked at her, "But as I stepped into the boundaries of Salem and my memories welcomed me, my heart set you free. I remembered fully then that it was the maid—Talia—who owns that rage and hatred."

"It would have been a disaster for me if your memories didn't return..." It was a joke, but it came out tearfully.

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