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“I love you so much Ruby, so much more than you can ever imagine, I don’t want a life without you in it, I can’t deal with it,”

He confessed and kissed her mouth shut when she tried to protest and push him away, he held her close, not breaking from the kiss, he trusted Luca, he trusted every one of the men out there, he trusted fate to not let them both die like this, he counted the final on was minute in his head, his heartbeat increased in the last few seconds but he never broke off from the kiss, neither did he let her go, slowly, the seconds overlapped, he waited, kissing her as he counted to another one minute after the bomb was supposed to go off, he pulled off after that and it was dead, he picked up his earpiece and placed it on and held Luca calling out his name.

“We are still here,”

He whispered as tears gathered in his eyes, they made it, he knew Luca would not let anything happen to him, knew they still had much time to live and fate wasn’t going to let them lose like that