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Unlike Ryder, I cried all the time. I cried when Leigh made me laugh too hard. I cried when I saw my mother in pain. I cried at the end of a great book, or when I heard a beautiful harmony. I cried when I lost a patient at the infirmary. I cried when I felt overwhelmed. It was the least brave quality—to be sensitive and fearful and full of tears.
“Firstly, you may call me Kane. King Ravenwood is a little formal from someone I’ve made blush as many times as you.”
He was too pretty. What a disaster.
I was furious with the man. So, so furious. But I also wanted to lick his neck. It was complicated.
Kane whirled to me. “You know this boy?” Before I could speak, Halden answered. “She was going to be my wife.” I went still. The entire tent did. Halden, you Stones-damned idiot. Kane looked positively livid, and even Griffin had gone pale. “No, that’s not . . . It’s not exactly—” Words were not coming to my brain in time. Kane didn’t even wait for me to finish. He stalked over to Halden, eerily calm. “You love this woman?” Halden looked right at me with fervor. “More than anything.” Bleeding. Stones. Kane nodded curtly. “Good.” Then he looked to the soldiers behind Halden. “Kill him.”
Aaaaaiiii
“It’s only fair. I’ve stared at you. Most of the time, I can’t seem to look at anything else.”
“Fuck.” He sighed, running a hand down his tense face. “I want to eradicate him for getting to touch you, let alone kiss you. It’s making me physically sick.” He rested his face in his hand. “Since when am I such a jealous schoolboy?”
“I thought”—his voice cracked, and my heart stumbled over a beat—“I’d lost you. I couldn’t eat. Sleep. Move.” A sad smile tugged at his lips. “Shave.” He considered me with something akin to awe. “I did not want to live in a world without you in it.”
“I was willing to sacrifice the entire world to keep you alive!”
“Maybe before, I would have caved. Forgiven you out of fear of being alone. Done whatever you told me I should. I would have felt that I needed you, especially knowing what horrors were to come. But now . . . You lied to me. Used me. You—” I steeled myself. “I can’t be with you like that, Kane. Not anymore.”
You go girl
