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Stefan's love bathed her, shone through her, lighting every dark place in her soul like the sun.
"I've already found what I want," she said brutally. "And who I want to be with forever."
"He's Stefan and he's all I care about. And I happen to be engaged to him."
Because "I’ll always be yours," Elena told him silently
And the amazing thing was that he did know. Elena was bathed in the deep glow of his trust for her.
Because she wanted simply to be with him. After that, everything took care of itself.
"If someone came to hurt him, they would find out what a bodiless opponent could do."
"Nothing mattered but that they not be separated again."
“Any time we get to be together is winning. Any moment-even in that dungeon…”
"I want Stefan to kiss me. I want Stefan’s kisses…warm and sweet and comforting."
When she touched the (silver) cord, it resonated so clearly to her of Stefan she knew it would take her to him.
"Somehow-somehow that brought you here. Because of love. Because we love each other!” - Stefan
Because they “held” each other, Elena snuggling weightlessly above the curve of Stefan’s arm…and it was bliss.
Because she needed to get to her beloved, her one and only, her true mate: Stefan
"He was her partner in the Great Dance; her equal and her opposite"
Because "he was her beloved and her lover in the purest sense imaginable"
"He was like a part of her mind that was constantly on fire, like a phantom limb that would never go away."
"If someone came to hurt him, they would find out what a bodiless opponent could do"
“You say I always make you say it first, so I’ll confound you. I love you, Elena.”
“I get all this?” he whispered “All this for you. Everything for you,” Elena said
"If she and Stefan had to die together, then they would die together"
“Any time we get to be together is winning. Any moment-even in that dungeon…”
They communicated in thoughts as pure and clear as shimmering gems.
"You followed me, and you rescued me,and now we’re here together,That’s all I care about.."
They were meant to be together forever. Nothing else mattered now that she was home.
“Home” was where she and Stefan were together.
Elena had to cling to Stefan, could have cracked granite, but only squeezed her exactly as tightly as she wanted them to.
“I’ll take you with me wherever I go,” Stefan said hastily. “If you’ll take me with*you.”
“Since I first saw you, I loved you—but I didn’t know who you real y were. You were like a ghost in a dream."
"We’ve survived—everything. They say long-distance relationships can be pretty difficult"
"If you disappeared again, I’d worry and fret and follow you. To Hell if I had to.”
"She felt she would die without his touch. She wanted to touch him. She wanted him to touch her. She wanted him to be her mate."
"You’re my life," Stefan told her silently.
She felt her own soul lift to meet his, herself unshielded and unafraid. Stefan had long ago seen any selfishness, vanity, over-ambition in her—and forgiven it
He’d seen all of her and loved al of her, even the bad parts.
She was endlessly beautiful and endlessly powerful and mysterious to him. He longed for her.
Their bond was singing like an electric power line now
"I want you to hold me and keep me forever, and I want to hold you and keep you forever.”
At last they sank down together on the sheets, comforting each other in equal measure; exchanging sweet, warm kisses.
How could anything be wrong when she herself felt that heaven was near?
He kissed her until Elena felt her soul dripping off her fingertips.
That was Stefan. Her love, but not her lover, willing to love her chastely from now until the end of her days…
Invite him in? He was already in—inside her heart.
She felt her soul expand and come out of her body. And meet Stefan’s.