Fate Calls the Elf Queen (The Elf Queen, #3)

by J.M. Kearl

“I like it when you’re bossy. Gives me the tingles.”

“Keep still, little rabbit, I’m not going to hurt you.” “Said the wolf,” Layala challenged. He let out a dark chuckle. “You’re making this too easy.”

You were the most beautiful being I’d ever seen. You still are, he said in her mind.

His warm hands gripped her face and he said with a shaky voice, “Don’t you ever do that again. Not ever. Gods, you drive me insane.”

“What do you want from me, Val? Because when you touch me like that, and say things…”

Don’t look at me like that. Like I’d die for you a thousand more times? Because I would.

But kissing on the mouth is special to you… You’re special to me, love. You’ll want more. I will always want more.

“I will beg. I will do anything you ask. After everything I’ve done, how I treated you, I know you shouldn’t trust me, but I swear I didn’t betray you. I have only ever loved you. I love you still.”

“I don’t care about anything that happened anymore. If this life has shown me anything at all, it’s that you are the reason I breathe. I live in an eternal midnight, and you are my moon giving me light in darkness. I have no heart unless it’s in your hands, Valeen.”

“You know he did that because he loves me. You never would have been so noble.” But she thought back on it; he’d let her leave twice, and he didn’t fight hard for her to stay. Once, when she left to break their mate bond, and again with Hel. “You’re right. I wouldn’t have. Not in a million fucking years would I have sent you away with him if the situation was reversed. I would have found a way to protect you myself, not give you up and risk losing you forever. I would have never stopped touching you and loving you or pushed you away while waiting to see if you still wanted me once you remembered. I would have fought for you. I may not be selfless or noble, but I do love you and I’d do anything for you but give you up.”

“I don’t blame you for falling for him. He’s easy to love. So, I will wait for you to find that he was best for Layala Lightbringer, but I am the only one for you, Valeen, goddess of night.”

want you. Every part of you. The good and the bad.”

“Hold onto those ribbons, love.”

“You stay with me. You can’t leave me. We have plans, and I need you here. I lied before; you’re still my brother. Nothing you could ever do will change that.”