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March 3 - March 11, 2025
I stared at the empty night sky, watching her dark wings beat across the sky, her sleek form disappearing into the roiling clouds. Away from me. “You promised,” I whispered as the sirens continued to wail.
Screaming, crying, throwing up yet again
So, no, Samkiel was who I was, who I would forever be, and Liam died with whatever part of Dianna’s heart fractured that night.
Her hands gripped my arms, and she pushed me back, forcing me to let her go. “This is expensive. Do you mind?”
Dianna dont start w me....
This wasn’t her. This emotionless empty shell was not my Dianna.
“When I burn this world to embers, and you paint me as the villain, remember, I really did try to be good… once.”
Mer-Ka was my birth name. Ain was Gabby’s, and Eoria was the home where we knew peace so long ago.
“You have taken someone from me with your actions—someone very precious to me. And now you have helped a lunatic corrupt her already damaged heart, shattering it into a million pieces. They are pieces I will pick up and fix, but what you have done is unforgivable. I plan to make you suffer for that transgression. Death would be a kindness, and you deserve none.”
Years of war had steeled my stomach to gruesome atrocities, but seeing her so casually holding the head of Ethan’s wife in her palm had my gut twisting.
Holy shit
“Of course not. The way I care for you is vastly different. The lengths I will go to for you are unfathomable. I refuse to let you hurt yourself, no matter how vile or mean you are to me. I know you’re in pain. You are mourning, and someone like you will grieve just as hard and deeply as you love.”
The emptiness and loneliness that had become a reality of my existence faded when I was in her presence. Now she was gone. She had shown me what it meant to feel at peace and then ripped it away.
“I had not summoned it since Rashearim fell, not until her. Do you know why? Because there are no boundaries I will not cross if it means keeping her safe, especially after everything you all have taken from her. It is the highest law not to touch anyone in my court or what I consider mine. That act alone is punishable by death, and she is mine. It will be your end.”
“I am not fond of others touching what’s mine.”
“If you wanted me on my knees, Dianna, all you had to do was ask. You know that.”
“Whatever you want.” Her smile was all fangs and cold brutality. “Whatever I want?” “Always.”
“I see different realities, one per second. No matter the reality, your sister was supposed to die in every single one of them. Some sooner than others. In this reality it is how it had to be for you to ascend to power. You were always the catalyst for worlds to burn.”
Some things you must endure yourself. Some things are meant to happen. You see death and assume it is against you, but death is natural. It is not cruel or kind. Death takes no sides. Death does not discriminate or hate. It just is and has remained since the first living being existed and will be here long after. It may hurt, but it happens to all.
“The one person who actually loved me, who cared, who would cross oceans and face monsters to save me, is gone. I am truly and utterly alone. That’s what Kaden reminded me of when he showed me Samkiel. He got his family back, and I lost mine.”
My heart is breaking for her
“Kaden took her family from her. Give her one back.”
“She could never deceive me, no matter how hard she may try. I could spot her in a crowd of millions.”
“If she is still my girl.”
Ahhh
“Always with the tone of surprise. There is no place in this world or the next that you can hide from me, akrai.”
We can do this dance until this world burns and the next takes its place, but I will still choose you.”
“Do it.” I angled the tip of her blade above my heart. “If you are truly gone, I refuse to live in a world without you, so you’ll have to angle it farther to the right. That’s where a god’s heart lies, and mine already belongs to you, so do with it what you will.”
She didn’t stop, but the world did as I kissed her with every bit of longing and desire I had for her.
“I’m going to help you as I promised. Your burdens are my burdens, remember?”
“I’ll rip your tongue from your skull.” “Will you kiss me like that again while you do it?”
“There’s my jealous girl.”
“You can’t hurt me anymore with words, Dianna. I know the heart that still beats beneath your breast. I’ve held it. You might as well surrender now because you cannot scare me away. You never could.”
“She is strong, my king. Perhaps we can use her for what’s coming.”
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“She’s here for a purpose. We all know it. You made an Ig’Morruthen, so use it. Break her, starve her of affection, and train her to kill like the old ways. That’s the whole fucking point. Not to make her a love-sick fucking mutt. Use her. Make her a weapon so we can kill him and go the fuck home.”
My power flared, and I watched the flame eat away at the photos.
Stop it rn
“A thousand plus worlds he has seen, yet when he dreams, he dreams of you.”
That damned face. The same face that, against all my fury and bitter rage, I still dreamt of. How could life have been so cruel as to show him to me, tease me with even the slightest possibility of a future, and then spit in my face with a cold and brutal reminder? He and I were not the same. Not an epic, sweeping tale. Not one of the romantic stories Gabby so loved, but enemies. One born from light, the other crafted from darkness. Samkiel was right. The universe was cruel.
It was a soft, quick goodbye kiss to the man who, regardless of everything, kept trying to save me.
“Maybe in another life,” I whispered before pulling away.
Screaming and crying
“I know I didn’t seem like it when I first came back. Thousands of years of emotions are stacked inside my head, things I never wanted to share with anyone until her. Then, she came crashing in like she did everything. It wasn’t anything at first. We could barely stand the sight of one another, but somehow, she snuck behind every defense I had and got under my skin. It was the most intense thing I had ever felt. All she did was talk to me, hold me through the worst of my nightmares, and she got in. She is everything I am supposed to protect you all from, and a part of me knows I cannot live
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“My heart and soul scream in defiance because she is the only thing I can think about. The only thing I dream of when I allow it, the only thing in this life or the next I wish to claim.”
Yet this woman with a fiery attitude has burned me to my very core. I let her in during the worst part of my existence, and now she is in my bones. My every thought, every dream, is of her, and I can’t eat or sleep. I haven’t even been inside of her, Logan, not really, not like Cameron or Vincent suspects, but she’s burned into my soul, my very being.
Every time a door opens, or I hear heels on the floor, I look for her, and I hate that, too. I hate that I think every dark-haired woman I see is her. She made me smile, made me laugh, and I hate it. I hate that she made me feel alive and whole for once. Dianna saw me for who I am, not a ruler or king. She made me feel normal, and then she left me. Abandoned me like it meant nothing.”
“That’s why you didn’t bring the others with you, the witch and the fate. You weren’t planning on coming back, were you? That is why you keep pushing Samkiel away. Why won’t you let him help? This is a suicide mission for you.”
Now look at you. Just giving up without even trying and wasting her sacrifice like it meant nothing. You’re pathetic now. She would be embarrassed.”
Oh! Logan, she's gonna kill you
“Yeah. We share everything. That’s why it has to be a soul tie for the mark to appear. The closest equivalent in your language would be a soulmate, mate, or fated love, the one person who is your equal in every way. That’s how the old gods spoke of it. The mark appears once the bond is completed and only disappears in death.
Weapons. That was why Kaden needed the iron.
“It’s something Camilla made. She said it could create a rift, but only for a little while. I think she hoped I would change my mind after I killed Kaden, but I never planned to use it for me. I was going to send Neverra back. If he were going to kill her, he would have already.”
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I was fury and desolation. Vengeance and hate. Beginning and end. I was death incarnate. Smoke billowed up in a dark, hateful cloud.
“You found me,” she choked out, the cavern trembling around us. I couldn’t help the silent sob that escaped me. “I will always find you.”
Best thing thats happened so far
Only mortally wounded in our true forms.
“Seek revenge for the sister that was not even of your blood.”
Huh???
Neverra, whole and unbroken, stood at my side, holding her sword high. Tobias’s blood dripped off the end of her blade, defiance, and retribution burning in her cobalt eyes. Logan appeared above me, yanking Tobias’s blade from my midsection.
YESSSSS !!!!!
think you’re in desperate need of new friends if you think we would ever leave you behind.”
Crying
