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“I will find you. I will find you in that life. I fucking promise you that. But you have to go. Please, baby.”
“Or having to piss in the snow and watch your dick shrink from the cold,” another soldier says. “Hate to break it to you, but your cock is always that small!”
Queen Kaila. She came to help. She actually came.
Wtffffff
“Don’t call her love,” I growl. “Yeah, don’t call me love,” she snips, giving him a look of disgust that instantly makes me feel even better than good. Judd grins. “Wow. You two are made for each other.” “Of course we are,” we both say in our own irritated tones.
“I want to kill them for what they did to you.” She rolls her eyes. It makes me hard as a rock because that’s what this infuriating woman does to me. “Well, too bad. You can’t,” she says. I’m going to have to talk to her about letting me kill people for her. Later. After I fuck her in whatever building still stands.
“You don’t need to beg, but the words sound so fucking sweet.”
“I love you, Slade,” Auren whispers as tears fill her eyes. My heart swells, and I hold her jaw as I kiss away her tears. Then I tilt her face so I can look into the eyes of perfection. “Oh, Goldfinch. My love for you consumes every part of my soul. It’s in every word, every movement. With each morning that dawns and every night that falls. You are completely mine, and I am yours, and that is all I ever need in this life and all the others.” I kiss her forehead, tears burning in my eyes. “I love you, Auren.”
Perhaps it just takes sitting at the edge of your world to find a little bit of hope.
“What are you doing?” “I’m kissing you properly, Queenie. The way you should’ve been kissed and adored before shitty men came into your life and took you for granted. Took you for their advantage. Took and took until you felt like you had to be cold to protect that shattered warmth.” Tears spring to my eyes and flake off against my cheeks. “May I have permission to kiss you, Malina?” His formal question makes my chest squeeze. “Yes,” I say quietly.
While my aggravated bond wants me to protect her, I also recognize how fucking strong she is, and how much she needs me to acknowledge that strength. How it will empower her even more because I have complete confidence in her.
