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The coffin lid groaned open on rusted hinges. I gasped, a ragged sound that tore through the stunned quiet of the crowd, my chest rising and falling as if remembering how. Daring stood a few feet away, his guilt a visible weight, while you remained frozen where you'd knelt over me, your palms still warm from the press of my sternum. My lashes lifted, and my gaze found him. A dreamy, effortless smile touched my lips. 'Did Daring wake me?' I asked, the question light and sure. The truth—that it was your breath in my lungs, your desperate hands that broke the curse—hung between us, unspoken. I was smiling at my knight, completely unaware my true love was you.