The Endless War (The Bridge Kingdom, #4)

by Danielle L. Jensen

“I’d heard you were bookish.” “Used to be,” he answered. “Recent events have left me little time to read anything that isn’t a report.”

I’ve never related to anything more

“I want you to see what I see,” he said into her ear, sending shivers through her body. “I want you to worship at your own shrine so that you know what it’s like to be on my knees before you.”

“It’s amazing you’ve lived this long, given the shit that spews from your mouth.”

You are a man whose heart decides all, even when it risks costing him everything.”

What word I give it matters little. What matters is that even after my bones are dust and my name lost to history and history lost to time, I will feel this way for you.”

Zarrah smiled, and it was like seeing the woman he’d fallen in love with rising from the ashes, scarred but stronger for it. “I have a plan.”

She laughed at something a woman said to her, and though the room was loud with noise, it was all Keris heard.

“Something that will be transcribed into the history books, no doubt.”

told you if you insulted Zarrah again that I’d have your tongue,” he said, then reached into the hole his knife had made and pulled out Welran’s tongue, slicing it free at the base. “Now I have it.”

Their story was drawing to a close.

“This is who you are, Valcotta, and I love you for it.”

“I find that an impossible task, for nothing in this world or the next comes before you in my heart.”