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“You killed them?” I asked. He nodded. “Every single one. They won’t hurt you again, my love. I promise.”
And I needed her to survive. Not only because she was my wife, my Bound and Tethered Partner, and my love. I needed her to live because she was the light that made my world shine. She was a brilliant gem amid dark grains of sand, a flower in a world filled with death. I needed her because she brought me life.
Her mouth rose into the smallest of smiles as she ran her thumb over her hand. “Why are you so sweet?” My hackles rose, and my chest rumbled. “I’m not sweet.” No one called me sweet, or kind, or nice. I was none of those things. “You are to me.” “That’s different,” I growled. “You’re mine.”
Her focus dropped to the pillow in her lap, and she hugged it tightly, drawing in three long breaths. I had never wanted to be a pillow more than I did at that moment.
Maybe I was a fool, after all. But if being a fool meant I could have more time with my wife, then I would gladly accept the title. For her, I would be anything. To others, I was the prince of Eleyta, the Master of Shadows, and the Bringer of Death, but here I was just Sebastian. Her husband.
“I will remain by your side.” Kiss. “Through thick and thin.” Another kiss. “No matter what.”
“I love you more than books and research and science. I love you more than coffee and chocolate.” Stealing another kiss, I continued. “Sebastian, I love you more than anything else I’ve ever known in my entire life.”
It seemed impossible that at one point in my life, I had denied love’s existence. Now, I could no longer do such a thing. My entire world revolved around Sebastian. He was the moon to my stars, the air in my lungs, the other half of my soul. I would do anything for him.
“I’d like to meet the merfolk,” I whispered. “Would you take me there?” “Darling, I’ll take you anywhere.”
“Every time I think I know what is going to come out of your mouth, you surprise me. If I’m crazy, Luna, then so be it.” He kissed me, bloody tears and all. “You make me crazy.”
“You remembered.” “Of course I did.” I remembered everything Luna told me.
He kissed me, and then he dropped me. “Fly,” he yelled. The wind swallowed my cry as I tumbled head over heels towards the icy lake. “I hate you!” I screamed. He shook his head, flying leisurely toward me as though I wasn’t dropping to my death. “No, you don’t.”
Snow billowed up in a white cloud as Sebastian landed. He grinned, looking up at me. “Beautiful,” he breathed. Though I was still in the air, I heard his voice as though he had whispered them in my ear. Somehow, I knew he wasn’t talking about the idyllic landscape.
I love when this happens
“You are my universe, Princess.”
Life wouldn’t be worth living without her.
“They will pay for this,” Sebastian growled through clenched teeth. “I will hunt down every single person responsible for this. I will flay the skin off their bones and pull them apart limb by gods-damned limb. They will beg for death before I am done with them.”
“You’re mine,” I whispered. “I love you more than life or death itself, darling. You are the air that I breathe, the blood in my veins, the light to my darkness. You are my life, Luna.” I squeezed her hand. “I would do anything for you.”
Luna was mine, and I wouldn’t let anyone take her away from me.
If she wanted jewels, I would acquire them at any cost. Books? I would find the best authors in all the Four Kingdoms and bring them to her. If she wanted to continue her studies? I would spend any amount of money to equip her with the best laboratory on this side of the Obsidian Coast. If she asked me for the moon, I would steal it from Isvana herself.
promise we’ll figure it all out. Please, just stop crying. It hurts me to see you in pain.”
When it came down to it, I would always choose Luna’s life over anyone else’s. She was my world.
