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Did she know that every time she said my name like that, with those wide eyes and soft voice, it did something to me? That coupled with her lilac scent, it made it harder to think? To breathe? To live?
“If you choose this, you’ll have me.” He took my hand, pressing it against his heart. The lub-dub, lub-dub, lub-dub came even faster. “Every single moment of every night, from here until the end of time, you will have me.”
“I love you so much, you dark, dangerous prince, that it hurts.” Now that I had opened up, my emotions flooded out of me all at once, like water out of a broken dam. “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.”
“I love you,” I whispered against his lips. He groaned, as if my words were a fine delicacy prepared by world-renowned chefs, and he’d taken the first bite of the most exquisite food in existence. “Say it again, darling.”
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 choose you, Sebastian Montquartier. I choose this life. I choose to remain by your side, always. No matter what else happens with Marius, Syndra, or even whatever Papa thinks of me, I know I want to be with you. Not only tonight, but every night, for the rest of what will hopefully be our very long lives.”
“This is my vow to you, Sebastian. I will never regret choosing you. Not today, or in a decade, or a century from now.”
“I love you, Luna,” Sebastian said, his voice thick. “Please, feed. Thinking of you being in pain hurts me more than you know. I need you to drink.”
He tasted like fire-roasted cinnamon, smoky and dark and filled with shadows. He tasted like everything I would ever need. He tasted like he was mine.
“Believe me, Princess, when we come together for the first time, I’m going to need you to be well-rested.”
“My wife is precious to me.” On second thought, that word did not adequately describe how much Luna meant to me. She was my treasure, the light in my darkness, the life to my death, the dawn after an eternal night. Worth more than gold or blood or anything else this world could offer me, she was the only thing that mattered.
My head grew heavy, and sleep was not far off. “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.”
A distinctly deep, masculine laugh filled the air, the sound warming me from the inside out. Not only because it was filled with the signature confidence and power that followed Sebastian wherever he went, but because there was warmth and love in his voice that was reserved for me, and me alone.
We were two, but one. Like sunshine after an endless rainstorm, she had burst into my life and burned away the darkness. I would cling to her for the rest of my days, never letting go.
“Because the only person in my entire life who matters is you. No one else.” Taking the tiara, I fit it snuggly on Luna’s head. Between the jeweled headpiece, her long brown hair cascading over one shoulder in loose waves, and the blood-red gown, my wife was stunning. Stealing another kiss, I whispered, “You are my universe, Princess.”
“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.” I sucked in a breath at the venom in his voice. “Sebastian—” “No one touches you and gets away with it,” he snarled. Fury radiated off him, and his eyes were nothing more than bottomless pits of rage. He reached over and turned off the water. “You’re mine.”
My wife. My Bound Partner. My everything. I wouldn’t let anything or anyone take her away from me. Not even the queen.
My wife was going to argue me into an early grave. It didn’t seem possible to kill a vampire with words, but knowing Luna, she’d find a way.
“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.”
“Don’t you know, my love? I will follow you anywhere. Even out into the sun.”
Gods, I loved her so much. I hadn’t known it would be possible to be this connected to someone, to feel so much desire for them, but I was wrong. There was nothing I wouldn’t do for her. Nothing I wouldn’t give her. 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.
I scowled at him. Or at least, as much of a scowl as I could manage, since I was naked and kneeling on a bed with my wings stretched behind me.
I was the Sunwalker, and Sebastian and I were going to kill Queen Marguerite and set Eleyta free from her dark reign.
