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October 24 - October 30, 2025
“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.”
My hands cupped her face, taking advantage of her parted lips to slam my mouth over hers.
She didn’t stop, but the world did as I kissed her with every bit of longing and desire I had for her. I poured all the desperate need and love I had felt while we were apart into the kiss. I gave her everything to make her see, make her feel.
“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?”
“Wouldn’t your betrothed be upset if you kissed another woman?” “There’s my jealous girl.”
“Gods, you have no idea what it does to me to know you care just as strongly for me as I do for you. What’s that word you like to use so much? Oh, yes. You fucked up, Dianna. You kissed me back, which means my Dianna is still in there, buried under all that grief and hate. I will stop at nothing to have you back again. Nothing.”
A simple touch from him, and I felt more than I had in months from strangers.
My body ached with the loss of his heat.
“You know my name. Say it.” “No.” “Then you’ll get no answers from me.”
“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.”
“Samkiel and I said the same thing, and I still blew him.”
I rested my hand over his, covering his rings. He looked down at our hands and then back up at me.
“Nothing, I just never heard you laugh before.”
“A thousand plus worlds he has seen, yet when he dreams, he dreams of you.”
Another reason in a long list of many why I couldn’t stay and be his. Or he mine.
My heart lurched. 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.
“Maybe in another life,” I whispered before pulling away.
“I was happy.” The words left my lips without me realizing it. “I was happy for the first time in my long existence.”
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. And I hate it. I hate that it’s not simple anymore. I hate feeling so strongly for someone who does not feel the same. 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
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“He’s not mine to keep.”
“How could you do that to him? After everything he is risking for you, doing for you! Do you even realize how much he cares for you? You know what he has lost, and you want to add to that pain?”
“You caught me?”
“Always.”
“I didn’t know where else to go,”
I watched her sleeping form, I realized somewhere along the way that catching her and keeping her safe was my only intention.
Even at that damned vampire mansion, I wanted it all. Her laughter, her smiles, and all of her attention. Selfish indeed. I wanted to be the one she turned to, not him, not mortals. Me.
I need you here with me.”
I had fallen, and Samkiel caught me.
“You went to Novas?” “Yes. I searched for you everywhere.”
“Come on. Do it. Don’t tease me by saying things you don’t mean.” He took a sidelong glance toward me. “That’s not you, Dianna.”
He was a god made of storms and war, and he was magnificent. And I hated it.
“I hate you.” He stepped closer and leaned in until his nose was an inch from mine. “I. Don’t. Care.”
I didn’t know if I wanted to kill or kiss him, and I hated wanting the latter for even a second. My heart pounded too fast and hard before settling into a slower rhythm, syncing with his.
“I would have followed you anywhere, Dianna. All you had to do was ask. Instead, you used me. You used every single bit of knowledge you had on me to hurt me, my family, and my friends. You threw things I confided to you back at me without a moment’s thought. I have been stabbed, tortured, and nearly decapitated. All in service to my home and kingdom. But nothing has hurt me as you have. Nothing.”
my Dianna.”
“You’re right that I don’t get to dictate how you heal, but gods, Dianna, you could’ve used me. I would have let you, and you know it. Anything you desired, whenever you wanted, any way you wished. All you have to do is ask.”
“You weren’t planning to come back to me at all, were you?”
He deserved so much better.
“You’re a fool if you think I would be happy in a world where you did not exist.”
“This is the safest place for you right now. No matter how much you despise me, I will not have you rotting in a cell. I couldn’t bear it. So I will give you your space while I try to figure everything else out.”
Why couldn’t he just give up on me like everyone else? Damn him, and damn me for even caring.
“The girl is not your or the council’s concern. She’s mine.”
no one spoke ill of Dianna, or they would regret it.
Choose your words wisely when you address me. All of you. I am still your king.”
As I stated, she is mine.”
“I loved the whole ‘she’s mine’ comment,” Cameron said, launching another triangle at Xavier. “So hot, it even made me hard.”
All I knew was that my mind was my prison, and I was the jailer with the key. A key I didn’t know how to use, and to be honest, I didn’t know if I wanted my cell unlocked.
“I ruin everything.”
No matter how I wanted to deny it, I wanted him. What fool wouldn’t?
