Shadow Mountain beyond the point of no return

She sighed softly at his touch, lifting her chin and baring her throat to him. He could kill her here and now, if he wished. But she knew he didn't. She trusted him with almost everything she had, and upon feeling the rhythm of those three words on his lips, catching the movements out of the corner of her eye. . .

I love you, Maegi whispered, and felt herself give up whatever wariness she still harbored for the broken man.

Now it was complete. Now they were complete.

We can make a home in the mountains, she went on, voice barely audible, muffled in his fur. It doesn't have to be Blackfeather, or the island. It never did. It can be anywhere we want, as long as we're together. She'd trade away a thousand Blackfeather Woods to forever hold onto this sense of security.