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“The moment I laid eyes on you was the moment I knew I could never end your life.” My heart thrashed. “So you did plan to.” I hadn’t doubted it since learning of it—yet I’d wanted to. Even now, I so desperately wanted to. “I was always supposed to kill you, butterfly.” His dark lashes dipped, his thumb glossing my lower lip. “But now, I will bring you the remains of anyone who tries.”
“It’s as if you returned it to him, no matter how much he didn’t want it, and now he’s out of practice with something he has lived without for so long.”
“I trust you, though I likely shouldn’t yet. I trust you because I want to.” My thumb skimmed her lush lower lip. “Because never have I craved anything in all the ways I crave you.”
“You’re no queen,” he said, already hurrying away. “You’re a fucking goddess.”
Despite all I’d done, despite all she still refused to give me, it was me she’d materialized to. I was her place of refuge.
“Those scars can be molded into weapons that will serve you well, no matter how horrifically earned.”
