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It’s hard to believe that something so beautiful would willingly stare at the likes of me.
“Don’t look at me like that.” “Like what?” she asks softly. “Like I’m worthy of being seen.”
“Dance with me?” she whispers. My heart skips a beat at the timid question. I open my eyes to find hers fixed on my face, giving me that look I don’t deserve. “For however long you want, darling.”
“Good,” I murmur. “Because I’ve always had a thing for short hair.”
“Short hair. Ocean-blue eyes. Twenty-eight freckles. And”—I pause, examining her with a tilt of my head—“how tall are you?” She blinks in confusion. “Umm, about five and a half feet?” “Five and a half feet,” I continue evenly. “The terrifying ability to kick a man’s ass. Stunning smile. Ridiculously stubborn. Hair like molten silver. Quick to threaten me with a dagger.”
“I’m not going to fight you,” he says sternly. “I won’t.”
Or maybe I just want him.
“Plagues, I love that sound,” he murmurs, making me fall silent. “I would tattoo it into my skin if it meant you’d laugh at me for doing it.”
I could never be worthy of her.
Paedyn. I earned her name back.
“Making me pretty, Pae?” She rolls her eyes. “As if you need help with that.”
“You want me without a mask?” Her voice is strained. “That is the only way I want you, Kai Azer.”
“Stop myself from falling in love with you!”
There was no longer a before you, only what I wanted with you.”
A man shouting his love for a woman.”
“I think I would fall on my sword if it meant you mourned me,” he breathes. “And it’s terrifying to think you hold that much power over me.”
“You asked me what my favorite color was once. I’d never even pondered the answer to that question before you. And yet, I realized in that moment that it was blue.” He bends to brush a kiss to my temple, a murmur against my skin. “It is your eyes.”
“Tell me you hate me, and I’ll still count every heartbeat, every freckle, every shiver of your body, if only you say it with a smile.” He backs away, freeing my face from his hands. “I may be a monster, but if you cut me, I’ll bleed. And if you break my heart, Pae, you’ll break me. So, if even a sliver o...
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“Darling”—he smiles—“I have never had to pretend to want you.”
“Oh, but you are my undoing. My deliverance. My downfall disguised as a deity.” Another slow step. “You are my ruin.” I’m dazed, unable to do anything but let a smile tug at my lips. “Call us even. Call me crazy. I don’t care. Just…” His eyes are pleading, brimming with emotion. “Just call me yours.”
MARRY THIS MAN!!
With each kiss, he captures the three words I’m too scared to say.
"I love you"
“No, I’m sick of running. And I won’t spend the rest of my life doing it unless it’s you I’m running back to.”
“You are my proof of a paradise,”
“Touch her again,” he snarls, voice low, “and I’ll slit your throat. She’s mine.”
Because before I loved her, I longed for her. She was a want I wasn’t worthy of. And I’m afraid I’ll never get the chance to deserve her. Because now that I have her, I’m giving her away.
Dare to flick the tip of it one last time, hoping she hears my words hidden within the action. I love you.
Oh. My. Gosh.
I could burn this palace to the ground like I did her house, just for a chance to confess my love before the flames consumed me.
Just Pae and Kai.
