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<"Don't you want to live forever?" He asked.
"Not if it's with you." I growled.>
"That's a little harsh." He smiled walking over to the bench I was sitting on. "I could get it for you, you know. I could build you a palace above the stars. You would remain this beautiful forever. You could be my queen."
I glared at him. "Sure so I could be like every other Immortal Queen I know? There husbands adore and love them for the first couple decades but then eventually get bored. Then they come find some new fresh play thing down here and then I am left alone. In my palace above the stars. Looking the same way I always have. Being your queen alone, forever."
He knelt in front of me placing his hands on my thighs. "This would be different."
I rolled my eyes at him. "They all say that."
"I would actually mean it."
I leaned back and crossed my arms. I wasn't falling for this. Becoming Immortal to just play house wife in some lonely castle was not what I wanted. Immortality in my mind was worse than death. Doing the same thing over and over again for eternity. It would be maddening. Then on top of that I would be forced to watch the person I love fall out of love with me.
He grabbed the sides of my face and made me look at them. Two orbs of swirling molten copper that held the magnitude of a falling star. Ancient and all knowing.
"Do you know why I haven't taken a wife?" He asked. "Why I am the last Immortal King to do so?"
"Because marriage is the death of relationships and most of the time end in divorce." I said.
"Because I have been waiting for the right person. Someone who matches me on every level. Who I can intellectually compete with; who makes me laugh until tears are rolling down my face; someone whose face makes the stress and worry slip off my mind; someone who is truly my other half." He said never breaking eye contact. "That's you, love."
There was a lump caught in my throat as tears brimmed my eyes.
"When I take a wife I wanted to make absolutely sure that she was the one I wanted to spend the rest of my eternal life with." He finished.
I took a minute letting his words sink into me. Was I an idiot? Probably. Was I also in love? Absolutely.
I grabbed his face tackling him backwards into a kiss making the decision right there.
Eternal life with him? Probably wasn't going to be so bad.