Chapter 799 We Can't Be Together

• Lexa
• I close my eyes as the armor covering my shoulders and chest falls away. He sets it on the counter behind him, his touch moving to my hips, then my lower belly, where he deftly–but silently–unlatches my belt and pulls it away.
• “We don’t have a future together,” I tell him, and it breaks my heart to hear the words out loud. “But you already know that, don’t you? That’s what you’re trying to say, isn’t it? Now that Blake is here and I have a way home?”