A Promise of Lies (Shadows of the Tenebris Court #3)

by Clare Sager

These were Bastian’s rooms—the Dawn version of them, anyway. He could be standing right next to me in Dusk and neither of us would ever know.

She pointed at Cyrus, hand shaking, and hissed, “May you always have the justice you deserve.”

“Katherine Ferrers.” He said it like my name was a complete sentence—a complete story in its own right. Silvery eyes piercing me, he held my hips. “Marry me.”

“I choose you, Bastian. I have chosen you a hundred times before tonight, and I’ll choose you at every chance I get. But I will not ever choose marriage, and I won’t be forced into it again.”

Because I was going to fucking destroy him and he would never see it coming.

“No matter what, I am yours, Kat. Yours.” She whispered back. “Mine. All mine.”

“You will. I’ll be there in bed with you, just the other side of the veil. Lie on the left side and place your hand in the middle. I’ll hold it all through the night.”

“I am yours to command.”

Burn me, my beloved flame.”

He’d never wanted me to make myself smaller, easier to consume.

I would give my soul if I had to. For Kat, I would give anything.

“My glorious forest fire. You’re going to be the death of me.”

“I… I read about love… I dreamed of it… but I never knew it would be like this. I survived without you, but this feels like living.”

“Katherine. My beautiful idiot. I would choose you over her—over anyone—a thousand times in a thousand lives. You have saved me.”

“Not exactly as I’d pictured, but… it might be even more beautiful.” “I’m learning that’s what life is like.”