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\u201cWhen you\u2019re out there on the battlefield with your captains and your soldiers, when you fight, you are the strongest, toughest, fiercest woman I know. Sometimes you scare me at how hardened you are.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWhen you\u2019re out there on the battlefield with your captains and your soldiers, when you fight, you are the strongest, toughest, fiercest woman I know. Sometimes you scare me at how hardened you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that\u2019s just\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I know what you\u2019re going to say. I know it\u2019s who you really are and I love that person. She\u2019s someone I admire so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you trying to say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m saying that I feel honoured that I get to see the real you. When you\u2019re with me, you turn into this soft, beautiful, lighthearted woman whom I adore. That woman who stirs something inside me to a point that I can\u2019t bear to be without her. I never see that woman with anyone else. Not Cary, not her brother, no one. Hal\u00edka, I think I know how you feel about me but\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked down at our hands, somewhat crestfallen.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never say it, Hal. I\u2019ve never, ever heard you say the word. Not even with those closest to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat word?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLove,\u201d he sighed and rested his hand on my cheek, cupping my face. \u201cThe word is love. Is Hal\u00edka Dacom\u00e9 capable of such a thing?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWhen you\u2019re out there on the battlefield with your captains and your soldiers, when you fight, you are the strongest, toughest, fiercest woman I know. Sometimes you scare me at how hardened you are.\u201d \u201cBut that\u2019s just\u2014\u201d \u201cNo, I know(more…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1116,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2687","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2687\/revisions\/2691"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}