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If Thea had stood out there in the rain with him any longer, there was no telling whether she would have fought him again, fucked him, or both.
‘In case I haven’t mentioned it recently… Your brother’s a complete arse, by the way.’ Malik looked delighted.
How had he never felt power like this before? Magic rippled from each of the stars as one by one, his apprentice, a lost princess of Delmira, the woman he loved, plucked them from the wall, freeing him.
Gods, Torj Elderbrock was a good Warsword, but an even better man. He hated that.
He wasn’t about to tell her of his experiences with half-wraiths – or, as some preferred to be called, the shadow-touched.
👀 👀 sir.
‘Because I love just as I fight. Hard, with everything I have. And I was afraid to lose it all. To lose you.’
‘When I was younger I didn’t know what it was to look at a woman and want to fall to my knees,’ he told her. ‘When I was younger I didn’t know a woman could make me feel powerful and powerless in the same breath. When I was younger, I didn’t know a woman could bring me back from the darkness.’
‘Not any woman. There is only one. There has only ever been one.’
‘You are what stands between them and our world, so remember this: being a true Guardian of the midrealms is not about hating the evil before you, but loving the land and its people behind you. Remember that glory will not be found in failing to fall, but in rising from the chaos when you do.’
The reassurances wouldn’t come from his mouth, but from his body. With his body he could offer her comfort.
