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“No, a face like this”—he released my chin, looking down at me with an infuriatingly confident smirk—“should be worshiped. So now, what is it you two seek from me?”
“Because nothing but the heavens above could have created such a beautiful creature.”
“Then tell me, Asterie.” I leaned down to whisper the dare into her ear. “Tell me now that you feel no connection to me. That you want to go back to your Sisterhood because there is nothing out here for you…”
mine. Her flushed cheeks compelled me to whisper more pretty words to her. I had plenty of those. “Asterie, my strange beauty. If you would just stop fighting this…I would give you all the gratifying distractions that your body could take. Those ‘fleeting moments’ of intimacy you warned me against back at my cabin? If you let me, I’d make fleeting moments feel like an eternity.”
“The Black Moon Prince led the Reverists. He was both the Source Origin of Death and a Reverist. The only known warlock in history to be purely both. After the Reverists defeated the Sources, he turned on them, killing every pure Reverist. He was never seen again.”
“I mean that you are not my darkness, Asterie. You are my light. Stars are meant to guide us home, are they not?”
“And what about right now? What do you want right now?” My palms met the planes of his abdomen, soaking in his ragged breaths and his heart’s accelerated beating. “You. It has always been you. Despite my better judgment, despite feeling guilty for it. I want you.”
“When I finally saw you in the light of my cabin, you were not just beautiful. You were strangely so. I could think of nothing but you, every curve of your body, every subdued expression you offered. I found it strange how compelled I was to kiss you from the moment I set eyes on you.”
“I’ll be wherever you are. Wherever you go. I knew that from the moment I set eyes on you.”
If Firose finds out Mattock has an heir, she will kill him. It’s not safe for you if she knows he is ours.”
