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“Certainly. What do you prefer to read?” I toss her a sidelong grin. “Do you really want to know?” Orla blushes. “No?” She sounds unsure. “Romance.” She sighs wistfully. “Love, my lady?” “Sex, actually.” Her eyes pop, and I chuckle. What can I say? I like my stories with copious amounts of sex. Especially when I’m getting none myself.
The Frost King has gone still. He shifts toward me in his chair. “That’s not a hunting manual.” Well, what do you know? It’s not. Long ago, I wrapped the slipcover of a hunting manual over this erotic romance novel so Elora wouldn’t be inclined to pick it up. Wait until he hears chapter twenty. It’s positively filthy.
“You are treated so poorly for so long you start to believe the actions toward you are justified.” “No,” I growl. “Abuse is never justified. Never. And it wasn’t your fault.” “I know that now.”
“I, too, know what it’s like to be alone.” His eyes lift, the blue so pure and unguarded I feel as though I am seeing him for the first time. “Maybe we can be alone together.”
These are my lies: Elora needs me. The Frost King is my enemy. Nothing can break me. These are my truths: Elora chose Shaw over me. The Frost King is my husband. I am already broken.
“I need—” Comfort. Compassion. Patience and understanding. To know that someone in this world needs me, too. I know Boreas doesn’t. It’s a ridiculous notion. But he kissed me. He told me he was alone, like me. So is it so bad, to voice this to him? “I n-need…”
“We hold fast to what is familiar. Fear often prevents us from stepping beyond that boundary.”
“I wonder if the fault is mine, to have thought so little of myself for so long that I squandered my life in serving someone who did not appreciate me.”
You’ve changed, Elora claimed, and she was right. Months ago, I chose my sister. This time, I chose myself.
LOVE (NOUN): A PROFOUNDLY TENDER, passionate affection for another person. Attraction that involves sexual desire. A person you love in a romantic way. Eternal devotion.
