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“It’s a good thing you’re not here,” he says softly, a tone I never thought I’d hear from him again. “Because I still haven’t found my courage.”
“Before I was your Enforcer, I was your brother. My loyalty is to you and no one else.”
And I think that was exactly the problem between the two of them. Father hated that he wasn’t the heir. Hated that the king he wanted was thwarted by the son he had first. I wasn’t Kai, and it killed him.
I used to welcome the idea of drowning in those blue eyes of hers. But now, seeing the disdain she stares me down with, I realize that drowning alone wasn’t what I craved, but sinking together.
Here, they are met with hatred if they are found out. There”—her sharp stare finds the prince—“they are met with death.”
“I want an end like those I loved most. Stabbed through the chest with a smile on my face.” “Paedyn…,” he starts softly. “That’s what I want,” I say flatly. “I want to feel what they felt. I want to feel like I’m with them one last time while I’m still alive.”
“Possessive, are we?” “I chained you to me. What do you think?”
Because something so strong is never truly tamed.
“So, I would kiss each of her fingers to ‘give’ some of my power to her. She loved it. Made it higher up the wall every day. But she especially loved when I kissed her thumbs, told me it gave her extra strength. So that’s what I did.
My heart
“No,” he murmurs. “I wanted her to be formidable. Recklessly bold. Powerful despite ability.”
“I didn’t stab you, so who the hell did?”
“And what is it that souls celebrate?” I shrug a shoulder, still not meeting his searing stare. “That someone cared enough to bury them.”
Tracing fingers should not be tugging on my heartstrings. But gentleness will be my undoing. There is an intimacy in being reached for.
“You cannot be nothing when you are everything to someone else.”
“Which is why I intend to find out what the real truth is.
Borrow mind reDing
Maybe this is how I’ve managed to evade Death for so long—by satisfying him with souls that aren’t mine.
Blood and duty run deeper than hatred.”
“Bury it with me, will you?”
“I can wield a sword in both hands, but I can’t get these damn flowers to stay together.”
“He ruined me. Marred me. For the rest of my life, I will look at this scar and think of the man I hated most.
“I couldn’t let anyone else see how he branded me. See the damage he did. I… I just couldn’t.”
“I would tattoo it into my skin if it meant you’d laugh at me for doing it.”
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