The duelist 3, p.36
The Duelist 3, page 36
And I laughed the type of laughter that was at least fifteen percent tears of relief until the two of us were laughing and sobbing together.
“Is he-- Alex, are you alright?” Horus asked as the rest of the group dared to approach us now that Shay wasn’t a human Roman candle, and I used his offered hand in order to sit up.
“I, um…” I smoothed a hand down my front and was pleasantly surprised at the absence of gut-wrenching pain. “I think I am. Yeah, I’m okay.”
After I said these words, I was instantly mobbed and buried under a pile of people each trying to squeeze the life out of me.
“I’m okay, you guys, I promise!” I laughed and hugged all of them back.
When it actually, truly, finally hit me that I actually had a life left for them to try to squeeze out, no words could actually encompass the feeling inside of me.
If I had to try, I probably would have described the rush of gratitude I felt for all of them in its simplest, basic terms.
These people I’d grown to love were my everything.
They were finally the reason why I wanted to hang onto my life so much, and it shocked me now to think I’d gone my entire twenty-five years of life simply existing without truly knowing the meaning of Living.
But because they were who they were, I didn’t even need to say any of this.
All I had to do was hang on tighter.
And so, I did.
With everything I had.
They all held on just as hard.
Whatever tomorrow brought, hell, whatever the next five minutes had in store, none of it mattered because I knew I would always come out on top no matter what Aventoll threw at me in the future.
End of Book 3
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