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‘But that’s exactly what you did, you bastard. You left. You fucking left me.’
‘You’d best eat your vegetables if you want to grow up big and strong, Thea,’ Kipp teased.
He was the Hand of Death, for fuck’s sake.
‘We live because we make others bleed,’
his apprentice, a lost princess of Delmira, the woman he loved,
He would have been lying if he said he wasn’t afraid for her. There was a hunt for her and her magic across the realms. But he refused to be the one to teach her to fear it, to fear her own power.
‘I can’t fight this anymore,’
‘Are you alright? Gods, Thea, talk to me.’
‘You are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. There’s no coming back from you, no end to this wanting…’
Althea Zoltaire had destroyed him. And it was the greatest privilege of his life.
‘You care for me,’ she continued. ‘Despite the mess we’re in… I see it in the little things, more than anything else. Leaving tea for me in the cabin, sewing up my torn clothes…’
‘Then don’t act like a spoilt brat.’
There you are, Princess.
‘You saying I’m not your friend, Warsword?’ A deep laugh burst from him then. ‘I’d say you’re probably my best friend, Apprentice.’
Wilder hated the sinking feeling in his chest, the feeling that told him Thea was drifting away, that he was losing her.
Wilder Hawthorne had never begged for anything in his life, but for her… For her he would beg. He needed her not to disappear into herself. He needed… her.
‘I want to do more than look,’ he half growled. He came to her side once more, under the guise of helping her line her cue up to the striker. ‘I’d fuck you right on this table if I could.’
‘Use your words, Princess,’ he said. ‘What do you want?’
‘Are we going to bicker all afternoon, or is someone going to tell us why the fuck you’re all here ruining my day?’
‘If there’s one thing that transcends time and distance and all else, it’s love.’
‘No one’s fucking interrupting this.’
‘It makes you, you. And you are perfect,’
‘Because I fucking love you,’ he said.
‘Fuck everything else. Nothing else exists but us in this moment, Thea,’
She was his. And he was hers.
‘Fuck me till the sun rises, Wilder.
He would forever be falling for Thea.
Someone had died. The Wilder she knew was gone.
