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He had been a hero once. Now, he was cursed with the half-life of a shadow wraith.
‘What should I call you, Wildfire?’ The word slipped from his lips before he’d even thought it, for that was what the woman was – a living flame, both in her violent actions and the streaks of red through her burnt-umber hair.
‘She was trying to kill you.’ ‘Some of the best sex starts that way, my young apprentice.’
‘I hope she sticks a knife in your back.’ ‘With a face like that, I might just let her.’
Talemir didn’t seem fazed in the least.
‘If you need words of comfort, perhaps remember this: there are all kinds of darkness in this world. Some good, some bad, and some with no agenda at all. It’s what that darkness means to you and what you do with it yourself that matters most.’
‘Glory in death, immortality in legend,’
Sometimes, to love someone, we have to let them go. And that sometimes, in order to go where we need to, we must turn away from one path, onto another…’
‘Someone told me there are all kinds of darkness in this world. And that it’s what you do with it yourself that matters most.’ A smile broke
Learn the rules so you know how your opponent might break them, and how you yourself can turn those expectations on their heads.’
‘Touch her again,’ he said, leaning in, crushing Coltan to the wall behind him, ensuring the punishing grip mirrored his words. ‘And you die.’
‘It’ll take a woman who’s more warrior than me to match the force of him.’
‘What’d we tell you about cursing, you little shit?’ ‘That it’s only needed for certain occasions…’
He knew the darkness so intimately it had allowed him to bend time and space and distance to his will.
‘Against evil, fair fighting is a sure way to get yourself killed.’
there’s no one else I want fighting at my side, whose home I’d wish to defend. If you’re going into the depths of darkness, I’m going with you.’
‘Since the moment I met you, I have felt like I was soaring. With you there is no ground beneath my boots, no rail to hold on to, and for a time there, I fought it with all my might… But no more. I’ve let go. And Wildfire, it’s more than I could have ever imagined. With you, I didn’t fall in love. I rose amid it, stronger than ever before.’ Talemir took a trembling breath, baring his soul like he never had. ‘I love you against all reason.’
A winged Warsword was on his knees for her, offering her his heart. In front of everyone.
Her own heart, with its own darkness, was his as well.
Love didn’t happen once, she realised. It happened every day, in little moments, in the quiet gaps between grand words, in the lingering touches, in the hope it promised in the dark. Love was something that breathed and expanded, that was made and remade, again and again, reforged only to become stronger.
Luck be with you. (Though he had a grand old time with me first.)
‘The darkness took a lot from me…’ Drue kissed him soundly, desire already reawakening within. ‘But it also gave me you.’
